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- 1. Multiple Choice
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.
- 2. Multiple Choice
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.
- 3. Multiple Choice
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.
- 4. Multiple Choice
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
- 5. Multiple Choice
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
- 6. Multiple Choice
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
- 7. Multiple Choice
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
- 8. Multiple Choice
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
- 9. Multiple Choice
Assisted the president during his postwar speech in Washington.
Lewis Powell
Tad Lincoln
Ulysses Grant
Mary Todd Lincoln
- 10. Multiple Choice
Conspired with Booth to kill the president
Lewis Powell
Tad Lincoln
Ulysses Grant
Mary Todd Lincoln
- 11. Multiple Choice
Dressmaker who feared Lincoln was too unprotected
Elizabeth Keckley
Tad Lincoln
Ulysses Grant
Mary Todd Lincoln
- 12. Multiple Choice
Invited to watch Our American Cousin the night of the assassination
Elizabeth Keckley
Tad Lincoln
Ulysses Grant
Mary Todd Lincoln
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