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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not mentioned as one of Parker's political concerns?
(a) Political conspiracy
(b) Separation of church and state
(c) Slave colonies
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Act

2. According to Wills, Lincoln's address is comparable to a classic oration of how many parts?
(a) 9
(b) 2
(c) 6
(d) 3

3. What type of community was Gettysburg?
(a) Mining
(b) Service related
(c) Farming
(d) Industrial

4. Who was the commander of the Northern army?
(a) Lee
(b) Meade
(c) Everett
(d) Lincoln

5. Who was the commander of the Southern army?
(a) Lee
(b) Meade
(c) Jackson
(d) Davis

6. How many days did the Battle of Gettysburg last?
(a) 9
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2

7. According to Lincoln, if the Founding Fathers had failed, people would have referred to them as ______________.
(a) Over ambitious
(b) Fools
(c) Idiots
(d) Simpletons

8. How many years did Henry Clay serve in politics?
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 15
(d) 10

9. The translation of "Arete" is:
(a) Sorrow
(b) Victory
(c) Valor
(d) Stop

10. According to Wills, Lincoln's speech is _______________.
(a) Overly emotional
(b) Prose-like
(c) Full of lament
(d) Dry

11. Lincoln was considered to be less a politician and more a _________________.
(a) Policeman
(b) General
(c) Mediator
(d) Father

12. What was the name of the Northern army?
(a) Liberators
(b) Union
(c) Yankee
(d) Bluecoats

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

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

15. What made it easier for Lincoln to speak about different topics in different areas?
(a) Lincoln always addressed specific interest groups
(b) No national media
(c) Lincoln did not go out on the campaign trail
(d) There is only one issue to discuss

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the preferred type of plays?

2. Everett's style was considered to be ______________.

3. What country's culture had recently come back into style?

4. Democrats were eager to keep the peace about what situation?

5. Wills says this about Lincoln, "He was a Transcendentalist without the ______."

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