The Gettysburg Address/MLK Speech

What was Lincoln’s primary purpose for delivering the Gettysburg Address?

• to commemorate a great Union victory
•  to dedicate a cemetery
• to launch his reelection campaign
• to consecrate the ground

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What time does "four score and seven years ago" make reference to?

• The present
• The near future
• The past
• The near past

Lincoln believes that victory in the war will result in?

•  a full measure of devotion.
• a new birth of freedom
• an altogether fitting and proper memorial.
• all men being created equal.

What is the national issue addressed in the Gettysburg Address?

• America
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Civil War
• American inequality/slavery

Where was Gettysburg?

• Virginia
• Pennsylvania
• Ohio
• Georgia

To which of these historic events does the opening sentence of the Gettysburg Address refer?

• the Pilgrims’ landing

• the American Revolution

• the founding of Jamestown

• the outbreak of the Civil War

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What is Lincoln’s main purpose in the Gettysburg Address?

• to identify the soldiers who have died in battle so far

• to argue why the Union will win the war

• to seek money for the families of those who died in battle

• to explain the importance of the war and inspire support for the Union

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In the Gettysburg Address, which set of values does Abraham Lincoln most clearly associate with the nation he leads?

• freedom and equality

• creativity and ingenuity

• prosperity and opportunity

• self-reliance and individuality

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According to Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, why are he and the others attending the ceremony unable to make the ground at Gettysburg holy?

• The soldiers who fought there have already made it holy.

• The site can never be holy until the Civil War has ended.

• Too much violence and bloodshed have taken place there.

• Only God, not human beings, can ever make a place holy.

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Read the following sentence from King’s speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” How did Martin Luther King Jr. feel about the future of America?

• scared
• angry
• hopeful
• sad

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