Which TWO choices provide the MOST accurate descriptions of what Lincoln accomplishes in his second paragraph? "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this." (A) He contrasts the sorrow of the present day with the glory of the nation's past. (B) He questions what words are really worth on a day when great action is needed. (C) He explains why he was making speech at that particular place on that particular day. (D) He argues that the civil war is a test of whether the fonding fathers' ideals could last.