The Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln


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  1. 1.

    Choose the right option to rewrite the following sentences.

    1. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth a new nation.
      1. 27 years ago our ancestors made a new country.
      2. 87 years ago our relatives made a new country.
      3. 27 years ago our relatives made a new country.
      4. 87 years ago our ancestors made a new country.
    2. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
      1. We are gathered here to dedicate a part of this field as a final resting place for the soldier who died so that our country continues to exist.
      2. We are gathered here to create a part of this fields as a place where soldiers can rest during their service to the country.
      3. We are gathered here to take a part of this as a place where anyone can rest during their service to the country.
      4. We are gathered here to dedicate a part of this field as a final resting place for anyone who died so that our country continue to exist.
    3. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
      1. We do not have the power to consecrate this place.
      2. We cannot consecrate this place because people who died here will not let us.
      3. We cannot make this place holy because the men who died here already consecrated it.
      4. None of the above.
    4. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here.
      1. A democratic government will not be destroyed.
      2. A government of the people, by the people, for the people cannot exist.
      3. A government that involves people in dictating the rules will not be destroyed.
      4. All of the above.
  2. 2.
    Why did President Lincoln give the speech at Gettysburg?
  3. 3.
    What was the unfinished task President Lincoln was talking about?
  4. 4.

    Who does President Lincoln refer to when he talks about 'our fathers'?

  5. 5.
    What will the world remember? What will it forget?
  6. 6.
    Why couldn't the cemetery be consecrated by the living?
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