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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lincoln believed that owning a slave put the master in the position of _________________.
(a) Tyrant
(b) King
(c) Persecutor
(d) Parent

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a big believer in what school of thought?
(a) Polymorphism
(b) Transcendentalism
(c) Marxism
(d) Totalitarianism

3. Abraham Lincoln's depression was often referred to as _________________.
(a) Melancholy
(b) Consumption
(c) Vapors
(d) Distonia

4. Where did Everett teach?
(a) Brown
(b) Harvard
(c) Oxford
(d) Yale

5. What does the author refer to in context with the word "liminal"?
(a) Dreaming
(b) Where opposites meet
(c) Deja vu
(d) Rainfall

Short Answer Questions

1. The issue of interracial marriage was considered to be what kind of issue?

2. Where might one have this experience?

3. Webster and his legal counsel believed that the secession of the Confederacy was _______________.

4. To whom was Everett often compared?

5. To learn to write well, Lincoln studied Hugh Blair's work on what topic?

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to writing and oratory, what other art form was being revived at the time?

2. What were the two flowery and overstated things Lincoln wrote in a letter to James Conkling?

3. How did Lincoln's views on antislavery correspond to those of Theodore Parker?

4. Both the North and South confessed to making mistakes in their battle plans. What were the mistakes?

5. What was the basis of forming American ideals in the Constitution?

6. Many claim that Lincoln had a natural ability to speak plainly. Is this statement true or false? Explain.

7. Explain the division of the parts for a traditional funereal oratory.

8. From what ailment did Lincoln suffer? What would it be called today?

9. Lincoln's problem was thought to give the President what advantage? What did Lincoln's contemporaries think of his ailment?

10. What does the author say about the myth that Lincoln wrote his Gettysburg Address on the train from Washington to Gettysburg?

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