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1. The best description for the phrase four score and seven years…
1. The best description for the phrase four score and seven years ago is which of the following?
a. A unit of measurement
b.A period of time
c.A literary movement
d. A statement of political reform
2. What is the setting of this text?
a.A battleship off of the coast of France
b.A desert plain on the Sahara Desert
c.A battlefield in North America
d.The residence of Abraham Lincoln
3.Which war is Abraham Lincoln referring to in the following passage? Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
a.World War I
b.The was of the Spanish Succession
c.World War II
d.The American Civil War
4.What message is the author trying to convey through this address?
a.The audience should consider the death of the people that fought in the war as an example and perpetuate the ideals of freedom that the soldiers died fighting for.
b.The audience should honor the dead by establishing an annual memorial service.
c.The audience should form a militia that would overturn the current political structure.
d.The audience should forget the lives that were lost and discredit the soldiers.
5.Which rhetorical device is being used in the following passage?
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain–that these this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom–and that government of people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
a.Antimetabole
b.Antiphrasis
c.Anaphora
d.Epiphora
6.What is the effect of Lincoln’s statement in the following passage?
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate– we cannot consecrate that we cannot hallow– this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
a.His comparison emphasizes the great sacrifice of the soldiers who fought in the war.
b.His comparison serves as a reminder of the inadequacies of his audience.
c.His comparison serves as a catalyst for guilt and shame among audience members.
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d.His comparison attempts to illuminate the great differences between soldiers and civilians.
