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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Everett taught what famous writer?
(a) Mark Twain
(b) Henry David Thoreau
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(d) Robert Frost

3. What state did Henry Clay represent?
(a) Ohio
(b) Louisiana
(c) Kentucky
(d) Virginia

4. What was the preferred type of plays?
(a) Drama
(b) Comedy
(c) Greek tragedy
(d) Shakespearean

5. How many words are contained in the last sentence of the Gettysburg Address?
(a) 83
(b) 104
(c) 47
(d) 71

6. What was the name of the Southern army?
(a) Texan
(b) Unity
(c) Solidarity
(d) Confederate

7. The epainesis section of an ancient funeral oratory has how many parts?
(a) 7
(b) 1
(c) 5
(d) 4

8. According to the author, Lincoln was responsible for bringing all but one of these items to his Gettysburg Address:
(a) Language
(b) Victory
(c) Myth
(d) Imagery

9. What metaphor may be used to describe this experience?
(a) Horizon
(b) Wind
(c) Cold
(d) Injury

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

11. With whom did Lincoln often attend plays?
(a) John Hay
(b) William Henderson
(c) John Philip Sousa
(d) Daniel Webster

12. Who was a devoted colleague of Webster's?
(a) Andrew Jackson
(b) Robert E. Lee
(c) Joseph Story
(d) Theodore Parker

13. Webster had successfully argued how many cases?
(a) 209
(b) 34
(c) 75
(d) 180

14. Lincoln believed that owning a slave put the master in the position of _________________.
(a) Parent
(b) King
(c) Tyrant
(d) Persecutor

15. When Lincoln would go off by himself, he referred to it as _______________.
(a) Hypo
(b) Reprieve
(c) Necessary
(d) Reconstitution

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln believed that if all men are created equal, they cannot be _____________.

2. The Culture of Death was considered to be ____________________.

3. In classical oration, there are two parts: Epainesis and _______________.

4. To learn to write well, Lincoln studied Hugh Blair's work on what topic?

5. To whom did Webster present his arguments?

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