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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Abraham Lincoln's depression was often referred to as _________________.
(a) Distonia
(b) Consumption
(c) Vapors
(d) Melancholy

2. Lincoln believed that what action would help to deter slavery?
(a) New laws
(b) Political speeches
(c) Imprisonment for slave owners
(d) Confinement

3. Where did Everett teach?
(a) Yale
(b) Brown
(c) Oxford
(d) Harvard

4. Progonoi and autochthones are parts of the speech that refer to the soldiers' ____________.
(a) Weapons
(b) Ancestors
(c) Courage and Fortitude
(d) Belongings

5. For the living, one should offer ________________.
(a) Advice
(b) Lament
(c) Happiness
(d) Solidarity

Short Answer Questions

1. Who preferred to focus on a policy of unconditional surrender?

2. What was Theodore Parker's profession?

3. Which of these was not the basis for forming the American ideal?

4. Which topic was not avoided by Lincoln during the Gettysburg address?

5. Lincoln often referred to the Declaration of Independence as representing what?

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