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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which family's vault rests near the correct location?
(a) Bridges
(b) Brown
(c) Benjamin
(d) Banneker

2. In what year was the signed lithograph sold?
(a) 1868
(b) 1864
(c) 1863
(d) 1872

3. Lincoln calls upon the people to do what kind of work?
(a) Dirty
(b) Noble
(c) Unfinished
(d) Important

4. The first part is titled, "The Athenian ______."
(a) Way
(b) Warrior
(c) Standard
(d) Example

5. How many generals were killed at Gettysburg?
(a) 31
(b) 11
(c) 24
(d) 26

6. When was the correct site determined?
(a) 1984
(b) 1907
(c) 1954
(d) 1962

7. Lincoln believed that war was objectionable on what terms?
(a) Moral
(b) Intellectual
(c) Principle
(d) Religious

8. In what year was the original site contested?
(a) 1865
(b) 1871
(c) 1868
(d) 1864

9. Who is Frederick Tilberg?
(a) Lincoln's great-great-grandson
(b) Well published Lincoln expert
(c) Curator of the Gettysburg Museum
(d) Respected historian

10. Everett believes that allowing the South to win would subject blacks to a terror such as the one devised by ____________.
(a) Atilla the Hun
(b) Apollo
(c) Robespierre
(d) Rasputin

11. Which of the following is not used by Everett in describing the Southerners?
(a) Belligerents
(b) Invaders
(c) Rebels
(d) Ruffians

12. During what war did Pericles make his speech?
(a) Revolutionary War
(b) War of Troy
(c) Peloponnesian War
(d) War of the Roses

13. According to Pericles, the soldiers died __________.
(a) Violently
(b) Graciously
(c) Valiantly
(d) Slowly

14. According to Lincoln, the nation was conceived in ___________.
(a) Brotherhood
(b) Faith
(c) Trust
(d) Liberty

15. How many paragraphs are in the speech?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln believed that following the war there would be a period of ______________________.

2. Lincoln offered pardons for which sector of the public?

3. The author is careful to point out what item in Pericles' speech?

4. What is the name of the final part?

5. Which part describes Lee's defeat?

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