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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. One of the most popular gathering spots was located in what city?
(a) Philadelphia
(b) Boston
(c) Richmond
(d) Chicago

3. What pastime interested Lincoln?
(a) Analytical exercises
(b) Dressage
(c) Aerobics
(d) Boating

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

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

6. Everett's style was considered to be ______________.
(a) Controversial
(b) Subtle
(c) Overblown
(d) Stingy

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

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

9. Where might one have this experience?
(a) In nature
(b) In the bathtub
(c) At work
(d) While sleeping

10. What was Lincoln's wife's name?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Mary
(c) Ruth
(d) Helen

11. Where did Everett teach?
(a) Brown
(b) Oxford
(c) Yale
(d) Harvard

12. Lincoln identified with what type of minister?
(a) Transcendentalist
(b) Conservative
(c) Baptist
(d) Moonie

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

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

15. To whom did Webster present his arguments?
(a) Supreme Court
(b) The New York Times
(c) Congress
(d) American Medical Association

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguishes us from savages?

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

3. Unlike Lincoln's words, many speeches of the day were considered to be _________________.

4. For the dead, one should offer ___________.

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

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