Question

Read Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address

Which line from the speech serves as the climax?

A The government of the people by the people for the people shut up Paris from the earth

B now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure

C we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live

D but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground

Answer 1

The government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

B now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure

Step-by-step explanation:

At the beginning of the speech, Lincoln points out how the nation was conceived in freedom and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. After this he leaves the climax to the next sentence, where he quests if a nation conceived in this way can last for a long time before the civil war that the country was facing.