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13.(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: concelved 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 concelved and so dedicated ... can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
(2) We have come to dedicate 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 ou
poor power 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? (5 points)
It clearly and directly states the counterclalm.
It Introduces the topic and hooks the audience.
It gives the speaker's history for common ground.
It provides a transition between arguments.

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