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Exercise "Abraham Lincoln", created by bridg (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 5 014 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 63 / 100 Share


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Question 1 passed: 70.1 %
Born in poverty, he moved with his family to Indiana and Illinois. Largely self-taught, he * a lawyer

Question 2 passed: 67 %
He served in the state legislature (1834-41), moving * Springfield,during his tenure, and in the U.S House of Representatives (1847-49).

Question 3 passed: 68.9 %
A supporter of * new Republican Party in its antislavery stand

Question 4 passed: 68 %
in 1858 he ran for U.S. Senate * the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas

Question 5 passed: 57.4 %
though he was unsuccessful, * eloquent debates brought Lincoln to national attention.

Question 6 passed: 69.9 %
In 1860 he won the Republican presidential nomination and was elected * .

Question 7 passed: 70.2 %
Though Lincoln had expressed a moderate view on slavery * the campaign,

Question 8 passed: 37.1 %
opposing only its extension into new states, the South * and the Civil War began in 1861.

Question 9 passed: 61.7 %
The war dominated * ;

Question 10 passed: 65 %
To unite the North and influence foreign opinion, he * the landmark Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Question 11 passed: 59.7 %
His extraordinary Gettysburg Address * that year further ennobled the war's purpose;

Question 12 passed: 54.9 %
it contains the most celebrated language * spoken by an American politician.

Question 13 passed: 58 %
. He was re-elected in 1864, and in his eloquent Second Inaugural Address he called * moderation in reconstructing the South and in building a harmonious Union.

Question 14 passed: 66.7 %
Five days after the war's end, he * shot by the fanatic John Wilkes Booth.

Question 15 passed: 55.9 %
His reputation * U.S. presidents remains unsurpassed.


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