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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a Gorgianism?
(a) Balanced phrase
(b) Antebellum carriage
(c) Fungus
(d) Grave marker

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

6. According to Lincoln, "____ breeds and thrives."
(a) Freedom
(b) Anger
(c) Impulsiveness
(d) Deception

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Which part describes Lee's defeat?
(a) Victory
(b) Exodus
(c) Aftermath
(d) Retreat

Short Answer Questions

1. How many generals were killed at Gettysburg?

2. In what year was Pericles born?

3. How many paragraphs are in the speech?

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

5. Lincoln believed that following the war there would be a period of ______________________.

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