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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What country's culture had recently come back into style?
(a) France
(b) Italy
(c) China
(d) Greece

6. Who was the man put in charge of cemetery operation?
(a) Wills
(b) McDonald
(c) Potter
(d) Winslow

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

8. Who was the president of the Southern states?
(a) Robert E. Lee
(b) George Meade
(c) Jefferson Davis
(d) Stonewall Jackson

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

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

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

12. How many men were lost on each side of the Battle of Gettysburg?
(a) 12,000
(b) 20,000
(c) 50,000
(d) 5,000

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

14. Which of the following words were not used by Herndon to describe Lincoln?
(a) Precise
(b) Impulsive
(c) Calm
(d) Cold

15. The South instituted laws against what activity?
(a) Going to political rallies
(b) Traveling north
(c) Freeing personal slaves
(d) Anti-slavery speeches

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Everett often compared?

2. Regarding speech and poetry, what term is often referred to as the beat?

3. Lincoln was considered to be less a politician and more a _________________.

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

5. The issue of interracial marriage was considered to be what kind of issue?

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