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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Appendix 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was not a factor in determining the real site?
(a) Space for spectators
(b) Elevation of the speaker
(c) Eyewitness accounts
(d) Photographs

2. People often referred to the dead as returning where?
(a) To Mother Earth
(b) To God
(c) To their ancestral home
(d) To Valhalla

3. Everett's style was considered to be ______________.
(a) Overblown
(b) Controversial
(c) Stingy
(d) Subtle

4. This school of thought relied on what?
(a) Politics
(b) Family
(c) Senses
(d) Money

5. What was Lincoln's wife's name?
(a) Ruth
(b) Helen
(c) Elizabeth
(d) Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. What currently stands in the spot where Lincoln supposedly stood?

2. Who is Frederick Tilberg?

3. Who was the first person to receive notification that the chosen spot for Lincoln's speech was not the correct one?

4. In what year was the original site contested?

5. What was the preferred type of plays?

(see the answer key)

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