50 POINTS! PLEASE ANWSER CORRECTLY. THANK YOU
TEXT: 1. 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. 2. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 3. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. 4. 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. 5. It is
altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

6. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate —we cannot
hallow—this ground. 7. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 8. The world will little note,
nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

9. 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. 10. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

QUESTIONS:
Read sentence 2 from the address:
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Part A
How does this sentence contribute to the development of ideas in the address? a. It broadens the scope of Lincoln’s ideas to include any country founded on the same principles that the United States was.
b. It creates interest in Lincoln’s subject by establishing a contrast to the historical reference in the first sentence.
c. It introduces the idea of how a country might have a reasonable chance of succeeding for more than a brief period of history.
d. It suggests that the experiment that started with the founding of the United States might be at risk of failing.

Part B
What evidence from the address best supports the answer to Part A?
a. the reference to “our fathers brought forth” in sentence 1
b. the idea that the country was established “in Liberty” in sentence 1
c. the reference to “our poor power” in sentence 7
d. the idea that a government may be “by the people, for the people” in sentence 10