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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This school of thought relied on what?
(a) Senses
(b) Money
(c) Politics
(d) Family

2. Democrats were eager to keep the peace about what situation?
(a) The Dred Scott case
(b) Lincoln's second inauguration
(c) Abolition
(d) The Battle of Gettysburg

3. Which of these is not associated with the Culture of Death?
(a) Public displays of grief
(b) Armbands
(c) Black roses
(d) Black clothes

4. Who was the commander of the Northern army?
(a) Everett
(b) Meade
(c) Lincoln
(d) Lee

5. What year is the main focus of the story?
(a) 1901
(b) 1924
(c) 1863
(d) 1849

6. What pastime interested Lincoln?
(a) Boating
(b) Dressage
(c) Analytical exercises
(d) Aerobics

7. What is another name for human progress?
(a) Mesmerism
(b) Evolution
(c) Forward thinking
(d) Achievement

8. Because of the oncoming winter, how many bodies would need to be buried every day?
(a) 75
(b) 30
(c) 100
(d) 250

9. Lincoln identified with what type of minister?
(a) Transcendentalist
(b) Conservative
(c) Baptist
(d) Moonie

10. How many days did the Battle of Gettysburg last?
(a) 3
(b) 9
(c) 2
(d) 4

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

12. Who was Andrew Curtin?
(a) Owner of Gettysburg Field
(b) Secretary of State
(c) Governor of Pennsylvania
(d) Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law

13. The author claims that Lincoln's abolitionist policies may be hard to understand if one believes the concept to be ______________.
(a) Mystical
(b) Ill planned
(c) Unfounded
(d) Frivolous

14. Who was the president of the Southern states?
(a) Robert E. Lee
(b) Jefferson Davis
(c) Stonewall Jackson
(d) George Meade

15. What is the proper name for a student of words?
(a) Entymologist
(b) Ornithologist
(c) Biologist
(d) Philologist

Short Answer Questions

1. How many is "four score and seven years"?

2. The Culture of Death was considered to be ____________________.

3. Lincoln's style made him good at writing what documents?

4. What was the name of the Northern army?

5. Lincoln often referred to the Declaration of Independence as representing what?

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