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Answer 1

Question 1 (Worth 5 points)

"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. 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, and the war came."

What theme is presented in this passage from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?

One side did not want war

Both sides wanted war

Lincoln’s speech caused war

----> War was unwanted, but unavoidable

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Question 2 (Worth 5 points)

Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical device?

purpose

---->ethos

emotion

pattern

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Question 3 (Worth 5 points)

"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."

Which statement below is true of the conclusion of Lincoln’s speech?

Lincoln promises retribution for war

Lincoln explains why the war has ended

---->Lincoln promises to restore peace

Lincoln expresses the reasons for peace

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Question 4 (Worth 5 points)

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

What is the purpose of this passage from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?

---->to argue that the impact of the war has not yet matched the impact of slavery

to show that God will judge everyone who participates in the war

to explain that the war will last two hundred fifty years

to illustrate that the war has already lasted three thousand years

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Question 5 (Worth 5 points)

"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation."

Which rhetorical element is included in this passage from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?

ethos

----> pathos

theme

thesis

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Answer 2

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