Question

What point of view does Lincoln express in this excerpt from the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. The sacrifices of fallen soldiers should be honored by survivors.

Explanation

The text is an excerpt from the Gettysburg Address speech that talks about the attitude that citizens should have to strengthen the nascent country resulting from the war. In the speech Abraham Lincoln proposes to continue building the nation together when he says "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". Furthermore, he points out that this would be a way of honoring the soldiers who gave their lives in the war as he expresses it by saying "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain". According to the above, the correct answer is B. The sacrifices of fallen soldiers should be honored by survivors.