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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 is not one of the elements of the speech discussed?
(a) Grief
(b) Balanced
(c) Brief
(d) Musical

2. Because of the oncoming winter, how many bodies would need to be buried every day?
(a) 250
(b) 75
(c) 30
(d) 100

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

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

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

6. What did Lincoln believe to be the most important "founding" document?
(a) Declaration of Independence
(b) Constitution
(c) Emancipation Proclamation
(d) Magna Carta

7. People often referred to the dead as returning where?
(a) To God
(b) To Mother Earth
(c) To Valhalla
(d) To their ancestral home

8. To whom was Everett often compared?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Pericles
(c) Odin
(d) Socrates

9. Lincoln's style made him good at writing what documents?
(a) Telegrams
(b) Thank you notes
(c) Love letters
(d) Legal briefs

10. Which of these is not associated with the Culture of Death?
(a) Armbands
(b) Black roses
(c) Black clothes
(d) Public displays of grief

11. In what month was the Gettysburg Address held?
(a) December
(b) November
(c) October
(d) September

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln believed that what action would help to deter slavery?

2. How many men were lost on each side of the Battle of Gettysburg?

3. For the dead, one should offer ___________.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a big believer in what school of thought?

5. What type of community was Gettysburg?

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