Question

Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows:

(1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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.

(2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

The tone of this speech is most similar to which of these?

A)A critical review of a work of art
B)A philosopher's body of writing
C)An inspirational eulogy at a funeral
D)A lecture on the nation’s historical development

Answer 1

C) An inspirational eulogy at a funeral.
This excerpt depicts the war and the men who died fighting for freedom and that that field be dedicated to the people who died.

Answer 2

Answer:

Letter C is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Abraham Lincoln read Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19th, 1863. A is not correct because he doesn't refer to art at all. Letter B is also incorrect; despite the Gettysburg Address reflects a deep sense of philosophy, it does not talk about anyone or anything in particular. The doesn't take the lecture on the nation's historical development as main idea (even though it is very important at the beginning), due to this letter D is also incorrect. The speech is most similar to an inspirational eulogy at a funeral, maybe because of the context: Lincoln delivered Gettysburg Address at the Dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery, a couple of months after the Confederacy was defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.