Read the excerpt from “the gettysburg address,” abraham lincoln’s famous speech.

now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battlefield of that war.

which quotation correctly uses ellipsis to shorten lincoln’s words?

a. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation . . can long endure. we are met on a great battlefield of that war.

b. now we are engaged in a great civil war . . testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battlefield of that war.

c. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated . . we are met on a great battlefield of that war.

d. now . . in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battlefield of that war.