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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the proper name for a student of words?
(a) Entymologist
(b) Biologist
(c) Philologist
(d) Ornithologist

2. Who spoke about "the strategy of annihilation?"
(a) Meade
(b) Grant
(c) Jackson
(d) Lincoln

3. Lincoln wrote a flowery message about Uncle Sam to which friend?
(a) Conkling
(b) Clay
(c) Story
(d) Herndon

4. Wills says this about Lincoln, "He was a Transcendentalist without the ______."
(a) Imagination
(b) Nonsense
(c) Stamina
(d) Fuzziness

5. In classical oration, there are two parts: Epainesis and _______________.
(a) Parainesis
(b) Mytosis
(c) Symbiosis
(d) Paralysis

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike Lincoln's words, many speeches of the day were considered to be _________________.

2. According to Wills, Lincoln's address is comparable to a classic oration of how many parts?

3. Lincoln's style made him good at writing what documents?

4. According to the book, which of the following was allowed to become a slave territory?

5. Everett taught what famous writer?

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