View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The United States.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who delivered a speech over the dead body of Caesar in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
(a) Caius Cassius.
(b) Marc Antony.
(c) Marcus Brutus.
(d) Decius Brutus.

2. According to Edmund Burke, what inhered in some sensible object and became the criterion of the colonists happiness?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Peace.
(c) Love.
(d) Liberty.

3. How old was Voltaire when he died?
(a) 64 years old.
(b) 74 years old.
(c) 84 years old.
(d) 85 years old.

4. Who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for over half a century and delivered the speech "Live--I am Coming"?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Elihu Root.
(d) John Marshall.

5. According to the speech "Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757", whose army is twice as strong?
(a) Duke of Bevern.
(b) Prince Eugene.
(c) Frederick the Great.
(d) Prince Karl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What significant event of the American Revolution did Maverick, Gray, Caldwell, Attucks and Carr die?

2. Who was a Puritan theologian that was famous for his sermons on sin, hell and punishment?

3. Who supported non-intervention and national and liberal movements in Europe?

4. Who was a great statesmen and economist that won world fame as a powerful advocate of free trade?

5. Who was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest dramatists and orators of his period in Parliament?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 239 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample