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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. For the dead, one should offer ___________.
(a) Courage
(b) Grief
(c) Praise
(d) Joy

4. What distinguishes us from savages?
(a) Language
(b) Clothing
(c) Government
(d) Manners

5. What was Theodore Parker's profession?
(a) Preacher
(b) Railroad worker
(c) Cemetery worker
(d) Congressman

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

7. Lincoln said that the soldiers "gave their lives that the _____ may live."
(a) Union
(b) Founding Fathers
(c) Nation
(d) Memories of Heroes

8. Daniel Webster was known as a great _______________.
(a) Physician
(b) Mathematician
(c) Orator
(d) Politician

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

10. Wills states that Lincoln used what type of imagery in the Gettysburg Address?
(a) Fertility
(b) Precise
(c) Muddled
(d) Overextended

11. Lincoln's depression was considered to be a sign of _________________.
(a) Allergies
(b) Genius
(c) Malnutrition
(d) Anger

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

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

14. At whom did Lincoln often poke fun?
(a) Stephen Douglas
(b) Jefferson Davis
(c) Robert E. Lee
(d) Himself

15. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a big believer in what school of thought?
(a) Transcendentalism
(b) Totalitarianism
(c) Polymorphism
(d) Marxism

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor may be used to describe this experience?

2. According to the author, slaves were often referred to as "the _______ of war."

3. Which of the following words were not used by Herndon to describe Lincoln?

4. Lincoln believed that owning a slave put the master in the position of _________________.

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

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