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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what war did Lincoln serve as an officer?
(a) War of 1812
(b) Civil War
(c) Black Hawk War
(d) Spanish-American War

2. During what war did Pericles make his speech?
(a) War of Troy
(b) War of the Roses
(c) Peloponnesian War
(d) Revolutionary War

3. Who is responsible for the formation of the government?
(a) Generals
(b) Congress
(c) People
(d) President

4. Lincoln believed that war was objectionable on what terms?
(a) Principle
(b) Religious
(c) Moral
(d) Intellectual

5. In what year was the signed lithograph sold?
(a) 1868
(b) 1864
(c) 1863
(d) 1872

6. The South lost approximately how many soldiers?
(a) 37,000
(b) 42,000
(c) 31,000
(d) 56,000

7. Who is Frederick Tilberg?
(a) Well published Lincoln expert
(b) Respected historian
(c) Lincoln's great-great-grandson
(d) Curator of the Gettysburg Museum

8. Who most likely kept a copy of the speech as a souvenir?
(a) Herndon
(b) Douglass
(c) Wills
(d) Hay

9. What two words mark the difference between the Wills text and the Springfield text?
(a) Poor people
(b) I surrender
(c) Under God
(d) Downtrodden soldiers

10. How many paragraphs are contained in Everett's speech?
(a) 102
(b) 49
(c) 77
(d) 58

11. It is important for all to know that the men who died did not do so in __________.
(a) Hostility
(b) Vain
(c) Anger
(d) Bitterness

12. Which of these does not apply to Gorgias?
(a) Nihilist
(b) Doctor
(c) Philosopher
(d) Greek

13. Lincoln left out many topics in the speech which could have been addressed. Which is included?
(a) Emancipation Proclamation
(b) Slavery
(c) The Civil War
(d) Treason

14. What city is connected to Pericles?
(a) Athens
(b) Corinth
(c) Sparta
(d) Troy

15. What would Lincoln commonly do to his speeches as a reminder?
(a) Require an assistant to memorize it
(b) Carry an extra copy
(c) Use cue cards
(d) Underline words

Short Answer Questions

1. What surrounds the flagpole at Gettysburg?

2. How many paragraphs are in the speech?

3. According to Lincoln, the nation was conceived in ___________.

4. How many words per sentence does Everett average?

5. The speech claims that all men are created __________.

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