Lincoln Quiz Review

HD: According to the speech, what does Lincoln believe will be the outcome of the conflict?

• All states will be slave states or all will be free states

• Some states will be slave & other will be free

• A new Union will be formed from states in the North & South

• The Union will be disbanded to make independent regions.

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HD: Which statement best characterizes Lincoln's tone in the speech?

• Lincoln allows humor to guide him.

• Lincoln allows his anger to show through.

• Lincoln speaks uncertainty about the conflict.

• LIncoln speaks with firm confidence.

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GA: Which of the following best explains Lincoln's purpose in this speech?

• Honor Union dead and inspire the public support of the war

• To respect the Confederate dead

• To remind audiences that historical memories are pointless

• To re-imagine the national purpose from this point forward.

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GA: Lincoln's address is delivered in ___ tense, from a ___ point of view.

• past; third person

• present; third person

• past; first person

• present; first person

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CLR: What is most likely the author's reason for referring to Lincoln as "the tyrant"?

• Feeling of the American public at the end of the Civil War.

• Stating the events in the most straightforward manner

• Showing how things looked from Booth's perspective

• Showing his bias and sympathy towards the Confederate cause

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CLR: What is a central idea of the prologue (paragraphs 1-10) of Chasing Lincoln's Killer?

• Lincoln felt that the South should be punished

• Lincoln left himself vulnerable to a potential attack

• The end of the war marked a time of national mourning

• Booth had given up on finding a way to kill Lincoln

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CLR: Which of these inferences about Booth is best supported by the text?

• Being around the postwar celebration further fueled his rage

• He detested that the Lincolns were seeing a piece of theater

• He was emblematic of many actors and artists

• It was completely accidental that he was in the same city

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Alerted the Ford Theater to the president's plan to come see the play that night

• Lewis Powell

• Tad Lincoln

• Ulysses Grant

• Mary Todd Lincoln

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Assisted the president during his postwar speech in Washington.

• Lewis Powell

• Tad Lincoln

• Ulysses Grant

• Mary Todd Lincoln

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Conspired with Booth to kill the president

• Lewis Powell

• Tad Lincoln

• Ulysses Grant

• Mary Todd Lincoln

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