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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Survey of Speeches by Black Americans and Important Speeches of 1974-1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was an outspoken imperialist and pursued the expansion of the British empire?
(a) George Bernard Shaw.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(d) Joseph Chamberlain.

2. In "In Support of the Oppian Law", where did the statues come from that made their way into this city with hostile effect?
(a) Venice.
(b) Athens.
(c) Syracuse.
(d) Rome.

3. Who was a lifelong anti-apartheid activist that spent 27 years in prison for opposing a white minority government?
(a) F.W. DeKlerk.
(b) Vaclav Havel.
(c) Nelson Mandela.
(d) Bishop Desmond Tutu.

4. Who was the leader of the Bolshevist party and first dictator of Russia?
(a) Alexander Kerensky.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Leon Trotsky.
(d) Nikolai Lenin.

5. Who wrote about Phillip's "violation of the peace"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Pericles.
(c) Demosthenes.
(d) Cato the Elder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who renounced all worldliness and led a life of self-denial and religious devotion, preaching the gospel to the rich and poor?

2. Who worked hard to give New York a progressive, vital and constructive administration?

3. Who delivered the speech "Defense Against the Charges" and ultimately saved the speaker from the guillotine?

4. Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and was one of the great American novelists in the 20th century?

5. What state's governor's lips were "dripping with words of interposition and nullification"?

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