Question

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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: conceived 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 conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

(2) We have come to dedicate a 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 our poor power to 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 second paragraph of this speech?

To state the author's demands for amends
To demonstrate the importance of the situation
To provide a possible solution for the future
To state the outcome of the war the speaker expects

Answer 1

To demonstrate the importance of the situation

Answer 2

In this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the main purpose of the second paragraph of this speech is To demonstrate the importance of the situation.

The Gettysburg Address was issued by Abraham Lincoln, "Four score and seven years ago" eighty-seven years after the Declaration of Independence. The country is facing a Civil War. Lincoln states that the most important principle is that all men are created equal and that the nation lives by this principle. He issues this speech to demonstrate how important the situation is for the nation.