From Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth, on 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
battle-field of that war. 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. 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. 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. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us-that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they
here gave the last full measure of devotion-that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain-that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Select the correct answer.
What is tone of the passage?
passionate
A.
B. hopeful
C. worried
D. respectful
Rese