Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. What was the occasion?

Lincoln's remarks lasted about two minutes and came after a two-hour oration by the day's featured speaker. What does that tell you about the address's place in the ceremony?

Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg while the Civil War was still being fought.

'We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.' What does Lincoln say the crowd has gathered to do?

'It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.' What does Lincoln ask of the audience in front of him?

'Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.' What do 'so conceived and so dedicated' point back to?

The opening says the nation was 'conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.' What does calling it a proposition claim about the nation's founding?

'The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.' What does the sentence assert about the ground?

'that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.' According to the speech, what alone can keep the deaths from being in vain?

'that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.' What does Lincoln claim the living should take from the dead?

'But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground.' Which device is the repeated opening, and what does it do?

'that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.' Which device is this, and what does it do?

'The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.' Which device is this, and what does it do?

The nation is 'conceived in Liberty' at the start and is to have 'a new birth of freedom' at the end. What figure runs through the speech?

'dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.' Lincoln is quoting an earlier American document. Which one?

Lincoln says 'who here gave their lives', 'what we say here', 'what they did here' and 'for us to be here dedicated'. What does repeating 'here' do?

Lincoln says dedicating the field 'is altogether fitting and proper', then says 'But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate' it. What does that turn accomplish?

The address moves from 'Four score and seven years ago' to 'Now we are engaged in a great civil war' to 'the great task remaining before us'. What does that order do?

In the address, Lincoln states the number of soldiers killed in the battle.

Which statement about the Gettysburg Address is NOT true?