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Which is the best inference about Lincoln’s assessment of his presidency?


A.

Lincoln believed he was too passive to be president.

B.

Lincoln preferred reacting to problems rather than preventing them.

C.

Lincoln did not think that his term of office was valuable.

D.

Lincoln thought he could have been a more decisive decision-maker.

adapted from Lincoln the Great

by Wilfred W. McClay

We too will have our own Lincoln, or Lincolns, and there is good reason to believe that ours will be as partial as anyone else’s. But we should not be content with such easy relativism1. Out of respect to the man, we should at least try to recover a sense of both the grandeur and the contingency2 of the history that he lived through and helped to shape. To see a statesman in full, and thereby learn something about the nature of statesmanship, one needs to see him not only in the overly clear light of retrospection, but in the shadowy and inconclusive light of the conditions he faced as they were unfolding. “I claim not to have controlled events,” Lincoln mused during the course of his presidency, “but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”

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Answer:

A

Explanation:

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The reason this is the best answer is found at the very end of the passage. Lincoln said that, events have controlled me." If he had been "master of his own fate," that would mean that he would have believed he could control the events in his life. But he believed the opposite, that events had controlled him. Therefore (A) is the best answer.

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