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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. It is important for all to know that the men who died did not do so in __________.
(a) Hostility
(b) Anger
(c) Bitterness
(d) Vain

2. What would Lincoln commonly do to his speeches as a reminder?
(a) Underline words
(b) Use cue cards
(c) Require an assistant to memorize it
(d) Carry an extra copy

3. Which text was surely not the correct one?
(a) Nicolay
(b) Wilson
(c) Hay
(d) Everett

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

5. Who was the first person to receive notification that the chosen spot for Lincoln's speech was not the correct one?
(a) Maynard
(b) Wills
(c) Selleck
(d) Tilberg

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does not describe the Gettysburg Address?

2. What currently stands in the spot where Lincoln supposedly stood?

3. How many versions of the speech were presented to the public?

4. Which of these does not apply to Gorgias?

5. Pericles also spoke of the value of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many parts are contained in Everett's speech and what is the significance of the number?

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

3. What advice did Pericles give to the living?

4. What was the proposition made by the Founding Fathers?

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

6. What does Everett believe caused the defeat of the South?

7. What was supposed to happen to Lincoln's speech before it was to be put up for public auction?

8. Lincoln believed that it would not be of much consequence what was said in Gettysburg. What would be most remembered?

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

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

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