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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Everett taught what famous writer?
(a) Henry David Thoreau
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Robert Frost

2. According to Lincoln, "____ breeds and thrives."
(a) Anger
(b) Impulsiveness
(c) Freedom
(d) Deception

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

4. How many words are contained in the last sentence of the Gettysburg Address?
(a) 47
(b) 104
(c) 71
(d) 83

5. To whom was Everett often compared?
(a) Pericles
(b) Aristotle
(c) Socrates
(d) Odin

Short Answer Questions

1. Who preferred to focus on a policy of unconditional surrender?

2. Progonoi and autochthones are parts of the speech that refer to the soldiers' ____________.

3. What was a favorite place for these followers to gather?

4. Wills says this about Lincoln, "He was a Transcendentalist without the ______."

5. With whom did Lincoln often attend plays?

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