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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who may have made the most accurate claim as to where Lincoln stood?
(a) Harrison
(b) Garrison
(c) Mitchell
(d) Wills

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

4. Everett lists the number of Union soldiers killed as ________.
(a) 6,471
(b) 3,679
(c) 2,843
(d) 13,209

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

6. In what year did Lincoln serve in the military?
(a) 1832
(b) 1866
(c) 1848
(d) 1809

7. Who currently runs the Gettysburg cemetery?
(a) Civil War Reenactment Society
(b) The Wills Family Trust
(c) National Park Service
(d) Department of the Interior

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

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

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

11. Lincoln states that the government shall not ______________.
(a) Perish
(b) Wain
(c) Fall
(d) Disintegrate

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

13. What currently stands in the spot where Lincoln supposedly stood?
(a) Restrooms
(b) Statue of Union soldier
(c) Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
(d) Flagpole

14. How many parts are included in Everett's speech?
(a) 8
(b) 7
(c) 11
(d) 9

15. In the speech given by Pericles, he speaks of the virtues of his ____________.
(a) Beliefs
(b) God
(c) City
(d) Soldiers

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Hay text discovered?

2. How many paragraphs are contained in Everett's speech?

3. Lincoln calls upon the people to do what kind of work?

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

5. Who spoke about "the strategy of annihilation?"

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