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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of trees did Henry Ward Beecher transplant?
(a) Walnut trees.
(b) Peach trees.
(c) Oak trees.
(d) Magnolia trees.

2. According to Mohandas Ghandi, how many inhabitants of India professed the faith of Islam?
(a) 70 million.
(b) 30 million.
(c) 700 million.
(d) 7 million.

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

4. Who believed that we have many things to learn from the West?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore.
(b) Sun Yat-sen.
(c) Simon Bolivar.
(d) Mohandas Ghandi.

5. Who was the Republican candidate for President in 1944 and said "we have a rendezvous with destiny"?
(a) Thomas E. Dewey.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Charles Evan Hughes.
(d) John L. Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a British playwright and novelist that delivered the speech "Literature and the Press"?

2. What continent was the topic of Henry Morton Stanley's speech?

3. Who was one of the most gifted poets in Britain known for his voice, poetry readings and his speeches?

4. According to John Bright, what law was very unsettled or bad?

5. Who delivered a speech over the dead body of Caesar in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?

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