We Question 1 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(MC)
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 wat
(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.
What is the main purpose of the first paragraph of this speech?
Olt clearly and directly states the counterclaim.
It introduces the topic and hooks the audience
O It gives the speaker's history for common ground
O it provides a transition between arguments
Question 2 Multiple Choice

Hat do the words partial, palatial, and potential have in common? they have the same prefix. they have the same suffix. they have similar meanings. they have the same word root.

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What argument does thomas jefferson make in this excerpt from the declaration of independence? we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.-that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. a. b. c. the american colonists desire a more peaceful alliance with great britain but their british counterparts do not. the american colonists have a right to seek freedom from great britain due to the continued oppression of their basic rights. the american colonies could form a better government than the one established by great britain to govern them. the king of britain and the members of british parliament have little interest in the welfare of the colonies. od. e. the american colonies should have sufficient representation in british parliament if america and great britain are to coexist peacefully.