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Making Inferences in Informational Texts: Mastery Test
adapted from Lincoln the Great
by Wired W. McClay
When standing before the Lincoln Memorial, we should
remember the depth and breadth of Lincoln's unpopularity
during his entire time in office. Few great leaders have been
more comprehensively disdained or loathed-or
underestimated. The low Southern view of him, of course, was
to be expected, but it was widely shared north of the
Mason-Oxon line. As David Donald put it, Lincoln's own
associates thought him a simple Susan, a baboon, an aimless
punster, a smutty joker he was in the view of the abolitionist
Wendell Phillips, a Thuckster in politics" and "a first-rate
second-rate man"When he delivered the Gettysburg Address
one of the great speeches of human history, he was completely
shadowed by the two-hour-long speech of famed orator
Edward Everett that preceded his. There was little or no
applause for him as he concluded his two-minute speech and
sat down
a person who argues against the institution of slavery
salesman who uses aggressive, showy, devious methods to
promote a product.
Submit Test
Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu.
What can the reader infer from Phillips' description that Lincoln was a first-rate second-rate man?
From Phillips description, the reader can infer that Lincoln was