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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city was a signed lithograph of the Gettysburg Address sold?
(a) Springfield
(b) Washington
(c) New York
(d) Baltimore

2. What was David Wills' role in the Gettysburg event?
(a) Photographer
(b) Chairman
(c) Grave tender
(d) PR man

3. It is important for all to know that the men who died did not do so in __________.
(a) Hostility
(b) Bitterness
(c) Vain
(d) Anger

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

5. What would Lincoln commonly do to his speeches as a reminder?
(a) Underline words
(b) Require an assistant to memorize it
(c) Use cue cards
(d) Carry an extra copy

Short Answer Questions

1. Which copy of the speech is most likely the authentic one?

2. Pericles also spoke of the value of which of the following?

3. Who is responsible for the formation of the government?

4. The speech claims that we have been met where?

5. What is a Gorgianism?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lincoln believed that it would not be of much consequence what was said in Gettysburg. What would be most remembered?

2. What was Lincoln's opinion on violence versus non-violence?

3. Why was it important to state that the living should be devoted to the dead?

4. Which two major speeches of Lincoln's are mentioned and how are they compared?

5. Why did it take so long for the Hay text to be discovered?

6. Wills makes it a point to compare what theme in both speeches by Lincoln and Pericles?

7. What was the proposition made by the Founding Fathers?

8. What is the purpose of Wills marking out the parts of Pericles' speech?

9. Which version of the speech is the most popular? Why?

10. What change did the translation of Gorgias' undergo?

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