The Gettysburg Address Saving Lincoln

What was Lincoln's tone like in the speech?

• comical

• generous

• lighthearted

• serious

When Lincoln says the living should be dedicated to the "unfinished work," what does he mean by "unfinished work?"

• The war

• The battle

• Slavery

• Dinner

Who are the fathers mentioned in the line above?

• Abraham Lincoln's Dad

• Christopher Columbus

• The fathers of the soldiers who died.

• America's Founding Fathers

What was the main idea of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

• Dedicate the field as a cemetery

• End slavery

• Motivate the troops to keep fighting

• Stop General Lee

As President Lincoln speaks in the film, his words create effects in the audience. Mark the box that shows which reaction the president’s words cause. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

• Agreement

• Sorrow

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

What is the effect of President Lincoln’s use of understatement about the impact of his speech?

• To point out the limits of human memory

• To note that the world does not care about the Civil War

• To stress the importance of the sacrifice of the Civil War soldiers

• To point out that the battle was unusually horrific

Based on the film, who was the intended audience for the Gettysburg Address?

• A group gathered on a battlefield

• Soldiers in the Civil War

• People listening all over the world

• Women who had lost family members in the war

Which phrase from the text best supports the central idea?

• “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” 

• “We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field”

• “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground.”

• “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's main idea is that...

• the soldiers died because of injustice

• the Civil War was over after the Battle of Gettysburg

• these men would not die in vain

• America deserved independence and freedom