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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 Puritan theologian that was famous for his sermons on sin, hell and punishment?
(a) John Hancock.
(b) John Calvin.
(c) Jonathon Edwards.
(d) Patrick Henry.

2. Who started the Hull House, a famous settlement for Social Service in Chicago?
(a) Susan B. Anthony.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Stephen Wise.

3. According to Fulton Sheen, who said "We are becoming a warlike nation--that is to say, one endowed to a higher degree with virtues of obedience, sacrifice, and dedication to country"?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Adolf Hitler.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4. Who said "I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect"?
(a) Carl Schurz.
(b) Edward Everett Hale.
(c) William Schwenck Gilbert.
(d) Sir Arthur Sullivan.

5. Who was a great speaker and debater that was opposed to The League of Nations?
(a) Eugene Victor Debs.
(b) Elihu Root.
(c) William Edgar Borah.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Einstein's speech "Peace in the Atomic Age", what appeared to be on the public horizon as a probable and attainable goal?

2. Which writing stated that laws no longer carry any weight with the people who do whatever they please, regardless of what is morally right?

3. According to Daniel Webster, who erected the government of the U.S.?

4. Who wrote that the House of Commons needed to only pay attention to "British interests"?

5. According to the speech "Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757", whose army is twice as strong?

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