Essays, Speeches and Other Short Works

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. This author is famous for his 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'. Wiliam Hazlitt Thomas DeQuincey Mark Twain Samuel Coleridge

2. This famous essayist was known as 'Elia'. Charles Lamb Voltaire John Stuart Mill Guy De Maupassant

3. James Thurber, famous humorist, wrote about this 'murder mystery'. Othello Hamlet Macbeth Julius Caesar

4. This writer wrote on 'Democracy in America'. DeTocqueville Rousseau Locke Montaigne

5. 'No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting'. Who said it? Lincoln Jefferson Jackson Washington

6. This presidential candidate was famous for his 'cross of gold' speech. William Jennings Bryan John C. Breckinridge Stephen Douglas Samuel Tilden

7. One famous speech included the phrase 'Ich bin ein Berliner'. Who made the speech? Richard Nixon FDR John Kennedy Dwight Eisenhower

8. This president spoke about the need for a 'return to normalcy'. Wilson Coolidge Harding Hoover

9. 'If you believe in an independent destiny for America, if you believe this country should not enter a war in Europe, we ask you to join the 'America First' Committee' ... Who said it? Charles Lindbergh William McKinley Samuel Adams James Madison

10. 'A good man who saw wrong and tried to right it ...'. Who is being described? John Kennedy Malcolm X Martin Luther King Robert Kennedy