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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. Progonoi and autochthones are parts of the speech that refer to the soldiers' ____________.
(a) Ancestors
(b) Belongings
(c) Weapons
(d) Courage and Fortitude

2. Which topic was not avoided by Lincoln during the Gettysburg address?
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation
(b) Freed slaves
(c) A slave's right to vote
(d) The Civil War

3. Lincoln was considered to be less a politician and more a _________________.
(a) Mediator
(b) Father
(c) Policeman
(d) General

4. What was Lincoln's wife's name?
(a) Helen
(b) Ruth
(c) Mary
(d) Elizabeth

5. Wills says this about Lincoln, "He was a Transcendentalist without the ______."
(a) Stamina
(b) Fuzziness
(c) Nonsense
(d) Imagination

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln's depression was considered to be a sign of _________________.

2. To which political party did Clay and Webster belong?

3. Who was Andrew Curtin?

4. What was the preferred type of plays?

5. Where is Gettysburg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Wills' duties in addition to burying the bodies of the fallen soldiers?

2. Garry Wills makes a specific comment about the changes in speech after Edward Everett made his speech at Gettysburg. What was the comment?

3. What are the most basic requirements for a speech?

4. Why was the Battle of Gettysburg such an important event?

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

6. How did Joseph Story fit into the anti-slavery movement?

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

8. What did Lincoln claim was the founding document of the United States? Why?

9. What was the running joke between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?

10. How did Edward Everett tie into the revival?

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