Test your knowledge of the 16th President of the United States and the significance of his memorial on the National Mall in this short quiz.
What does architect Henry Bacon’s Greek temple-style monument say about Abraham Lincoln?
He had a preeminent significance in American history.
He, like George Washington, was a mason.
He was of Greek ancestry.
All of the above
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How does the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln’s historic speech during the Civil War, begin?
"With malice toward none with charity for all...”
“Four score and seven years agoour fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation...”
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them...”
None of the above
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Where was Martin Luther King Jr. standing when he spoke the inspiring words, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’”?
Facing the seated statue of Lincoln
At the edge of the Reflecting Pool
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial facing the civil rights demonstration crowd on the Mall
On the Capitol steps
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How is Emancipation represented in the Lincoln Memorial?
In allegorical murals located above the wall inscriptions inside the Memorial
In frieze sculptures depicting the lives of the enslaved on the exterior walls of the Memorial
The statue of Lincoln holds a broken shackle, symbolizing the Emancipation
All of the above
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What nickname did Lincoln earn through his life and presidency?
The Great Emancipator
Savior of the Union
Honest Abe
All of the above
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Standing at the Lincoln Memorial, looking east towards the Capitol, which monument to another US President do you see?
The Washington Monument
The White House
The Jefferson Memorial
The Taft Memorial
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The Lincoln Memorial is pictured on the back of which US currency?
The silver dollar
$1 trillion treasury coin
$5 bill
$20 bill
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What does Memorial Bridge, which crosses the Potomac River behind the Lincoln Memorial, physically and symbolically represent?
The Westward Expansion
The reunification of North and South (Virginia) after the Civil War
The branches of the military
All of the above
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How does the Lincoln Memorial relate to the American story told on the Mall?
It faces the Washington Monument one mile east dedicated to the Father of Our Country
It is aligned with the Capitol two miles east that represents the establishment of American government
It symbolizes the preservation of American government
All of the above
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