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    Exercise "Abraham Lincoln", created by bridg (a free exercise to learn English):
    Results of the 4 985 people who have taken this test:
    Average mark: 63 / 100 Share


    Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): sway / CANADA, on Tuesday 03 December - 15:26:
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    Stats (3618 candidates)
    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: 67.1 %
    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: 67.9 %
    in 1858 he ran for U.S. Senate * the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas

    Question 5 passed: 57.5 %
    though he was unsuccessful, * eloquent debates brought Lincoln to national attention.

    Question 6 passed: 69.8 %
    In 1860 he won the Republican presidential nomination and was elected * .

    Question 7 passed: 70.1 %
    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: 61.5 %
    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: 55 %
    it contains the most celebrated language * spoken by an American politician.

    Question 13 passed: 57.9 %
    . 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: 66.5 %
    Five days after the war's end, he * shot by the fanatic John Wilkes Booth.

    Question 15 passed: 55.8 %
    His reputation * U.S. presidents remains unsurpassed.


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