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

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

3. According to Pericles, the soldiers died __________.
(a) Valiantly
(b) Graciously
(c) Violently
(d) Slowly

4. The speech claims that we have been met where?
(a) Land of honor
(b) In front of heroes
(c) Battlefield
(d) Gravesite

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many paragraphs are in the speech?

2. Everett's speech is an example of an oratory for what occasion?

3. In what year was the original site contested?

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

5. How many words per sentence does Everett average?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which version of the speech is the most popular? Why?

2. Why was it important to state that the living should be devoted to the dead?

3. The newspaper texts use what phrase that is not included in the other versions?

4. Did Lincoln have any previous experience in war? If so, what?

5. Why was Tilberg convinced his assessment of Lincoln's position was correct? Were there other options?

6. What advice did Pericles give to the living?

7. What is the purpose of Wills marking out the parts of Pericles' speech?

8. Wills makes it a point to compare what theme in both speeches by Lincoln and Pericles?

9. According to Everett, what happened to the wounded left on the field?

10. What change did the translation of Gorgias' undergo?

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