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ENGLISH READING SKILLS - Lincoln´s Murder

Improve your reading capability with exercises like this one from the text about the Assassination of President Lincoln:

Choose the end of the sentence!

The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln ___.
Andrew Jackson thirty years before, in 1835.
to be assassinated.
took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865.
was now drawing to a close.

The American Civil War which had broken out in 1861 ___.
Andrew Jackson thirty years before, in 1835
to be assassinated.
took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865.
was now drawing to a close.

Lincoln was the first American president ___.
Andrew Jackson thirty years before, in 1835.
to be assassinated.
took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865.
was now drawing to a close.

However, an unsuccessful attempt had been made on ___.
Andrew Jackson thirty years before, in 1835.
to be assassinated.
took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865.
was now drawing to a close.