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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The speech claims that all men are created __________.
(a) Faithful
(b) Forthright
(c) Important
(d) Equal

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

5. It was originally believed that Lincoln stood facing what item(s)?
(a) Pickett's Charge
(b) Susquehanna River
(c) Little Round Top
(d) The town

6. Lincoln calls upon the people to do what kind of work?
(a) Noble
(b) Important
(c) Dirty
(d) Unfinished

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

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

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

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

11. How many generals were killed at Gettysburg?
(a) 31
(b) 11
(c) 24
(d) 26

12. Who preferred to focus on a policy of unconditional surrender?
(a) McPherson
(b) Webster
(c) Douglass
(d) Herndon

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these does not apply to Gorgias?

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

3. In what year was the original site contested?

4. The author is careful to point out what item in Pericles' speech?

5. When was the correct site determined?

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