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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 used by Everett in describing the Southerners?
(a) Belligerents
(b) Invaders
(c) Rebels
(d) Ruffians

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

3. How many paragraphs are in the speech?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) 4

4. Because he grew up in a rural setting, Lincoln had many opportunities to witness what event(s)?
(a) Rural justice
(b) Barroom brawls
(c) Family feuds
(d) Stealing

5. Which of these does not fit into Lincoln's list of things that cannot be done to the battlefield?
(a) Dedicate
(b) Hallow
(c) Worship
(d) Consecrate

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

7. How many times did Lincoln copy the Gettysburg Address by long hand?
(a) 5
(b) 2
(c) 6
(d) 4

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

9. In Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech, he stated that the U.S. may have to pay for ________________.
(a) Family feuds
(b) Politicians' rage
(c) Slavery's outcome
(d) Presumptuous sins

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

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

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

13. Which was not a word used by Lincoln to describe the American Revolution?
(a) Blood
(b) Fire
(c) Pride
(d) Famine

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

15. How many words per sentence does Everett average?
(a) 91
(b) 63
(c) 78
(d) 86

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Lincoln serve in the military?

2. It is important for all to know that the men who died did not do so in __________.

3. What is the name of the final part?

4. Who currently runs the Gettysburg cemetery?

5. Who is Frederick Tilberg?

(see the answer keys)

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