Briefly answer each question below 1. How is the speech organized? What does each paragraph describe?

2. According to Lincoln, what did the men who died at Gettysburg do?

3. What does Lincoln say that we need to do now?

4. Why do you think Lincoln mentioned the birth of the United States?

5. Select one of the words that Lincoln repeated over and over in the speech
(e. g., "here"). Why do you think he repeated that word? What does it add to the speech

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.