Lincoln Test with answers

Which of the following best describes how Lincoln's references to God relate to the structure of "Second Inaugural Address"?

His reference to God ties the present to the future and the past, indicating that if God wills it, the present war may last long enough to exact complete justice for past offenses

Which of the following quotations best supports the chronological organizational structure of "Second Inaugural Address" as it looks to the past?

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.

Which situation most clearly shows a person who is rending something?

The seamstress is tearing the cloth into pieces before designing a new outfit.

Which of the following is the best example of people who are insurgents?

a crowd of protesters rising against a government

a person describes cancer as a scourge, to which aspect of the disease is the person referring is the best definition for deprecated? Base your answer on the meaning of scourge.

Cancer causes widespread pain and suffering.

Part A In "Second Inaugural Address," what is Lincoln's attitude toward those who fought for the Confederacy? Which excerpt from "Second Inaugural Address" best supports the answer to Part A?

He does not wish them any harm for their choices. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds....

What does the following quotation from "Second Inaugural Address" most clearly suggest about Lincoln's view of the Civil War? With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

He hopes the final result will eventually be peace and healing.

The growth of the city's waterfront was part of a larger economic plan. Using context, choose the synonym for growth that has the strongest positive nuance.

improvement

In "Second Inaugural Address," what evidence suggests that the Civil War was not originally fought to free the slaves?

Lincoln says the government only wished to keep slavery from spreading.

According to Lincoln in his "Second Inaugural Address," what issue occupied people's thoughts and attention at the time of his first Inaugural Address?

a possible civil war

In "Second Inaugural Address," what does Lincoln say or imply that he wants? Choose two options.

an end to slavery everywhere in the country a fair peace among states that will be lasting

Select the answer choice that correctly identifies a prepositional phrase in this sentence that is also an adverb phrase. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.

for the war

"Second Inaugural Address," what is the "peculiar and powerful interest" that Lincoln says was "somehow the cause of the war"?

slaves and the people who owned them

Which of the following choices summarizes the general order in which Lincoln made his points in his "Second Inaugural Address"?

He recalls the past, discusses the present, and looks to the future.

Part A In "Second Inaugural Address," how does Lincoln explain why the country went to war? Part B Which excerpt from "Second Inaugural Address" best supports the answer to Part A?

He says that war was inevitable because the positions were so opposed that compromise was impossible. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish....

Select the sentence that includes a prepositional phrase which is also an adjective phrase.

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it.

In the sentences below, the underlined words have the same literal meaning but different nuances. Using context, choose the answer in which the underlined word has the strongest negative nuance.

The looming deadline made Ashley nervous.

Select the answer choice that correctly identifies in this sentence a prepositional phrase in this sentence that is also an adverb phrase. The newly elected President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address before he took the oath of office.

before he took the oath of office

Select the answer choice that correctly identifies a prepositional phrase in this sentence that is also an adjective phrase. On March 4, 1865, a crowd of perhaps as many as 40,000 people gathered on the muddy grounds of the U.S. Capitol to see Abraham Lincoln sworn in for his second term.

of perhaps as many as 40,000 people

According to Lincoln in his "Second Inaugural Address," what "still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation"?

the present Civil War