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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Pericles born?
(a) 231 B.C.
(b) 495 B.C.
(c) 94 B.C.
(d) 100 A.D.

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

3. According to Lincoln, the nation was conceived in ___________.
(a) Liberty
(b) Brotherhood
(c) Faith
(d) Trust

4. Who protested the naming of the site where Lincoln stood?
(a) Tilberg
(b) Henderson
(c) Wills
(d) Clay

5. Everett's speech is an example of an oratory for what occasion?
(a) Funeral
(b) Wedding
(c) Burial
(d) War

6. What other famed orator is referred to in this section?
(a) John F. Kennedy
(b) John Adams
(c) Patrick Henry
(d) Franklin Roosevelt

7. Which text was surely not the correct one?
(a) Wilson
(b) Nicolay
(c) Everett
(d) Hay

8. What does antithetical refer to?
(a) Valor
(b) Non-religious
(c) Opposition
(d) Illiteracy

9. How many stanzas appear in Gorgias' work?
(a) 28
(b) 14
(c) 16
(d) 5

10. When was the Hay text discovered?
(a) 1894
(b) 1906
(c) 1923
(d) 1878

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

12. Everett believes that allowing the South to win would subject blacks to a terror such as the one devised by ____________.
(a) Apollo
(b) Robespierre
(c) Rasputin
(d) Atilla the Hun

13. Which family's vault rests near the correct location?
(a) Banneker
(b) Brown
(c) Bridges
(d) Benjamin

14. Who spoke about "the strategy of annihilation?"
(a) Meade
(b) Grant
(c) Jackson
(d) Lincoln

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was David Wills' role in the Gettysburg event?

2. Pericles also spoke of the value of which of the following?

3. Lincoln's approach was considered to be _______________.

4. The first part is titled, "The Athenian ______."

5. Lincoln offered pardons for which sector of the public?

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