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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Informal Speeches.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a powerful supporter of Cicero in defeating the conspiracy of Catiline against the Roman government?
(a) Marc Antony.
(b) Marcus Brutus.
(c) Cato the Younger.
(d) Julius Caesar.

2. In the speech "To His Troops", Lucius Sergius Catiline stated two armies opposed their progress. Rome was one, what was the other army?
(a) Corinth.
(b) The Trojans.
(c) Gaul.
(d) The Greek army.

3. Who was a Shawnee and said that white people have no right to take the land from the Indians?
(a) Tecumseh.
(b) Crazy Horse.
(c) Red Jacket.
(d) Wild Bear.

4. The year 1955 celebrated how many years since the United Nations was chartered?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 20 years.

5. According to Cicero in "First Oration Against Catiline", who was put to death on mere suspicion?
(a) Caius Gracchus.
(b) Marcus Fulvius.
(c) Caius Marius.
(d) Lucius Opimius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was torn from nature a secret so vast in its potentialities that our minds cower from the terror it creates?

2. Who did Grover Cleveland refer to as a discoverer, dreamer, hero and apostle?

3. Before leaving to live in the White House, what city did Lincoln live?

4. What did John D. Rockefeller, Jr. believe the greatest thing in the world was?

5. How old was Voltaire when he died?

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