1. Who admits being the one who suggested recruiting Lincoln to run for office?
(a) Josh Speed.
(b) Ann Rutledge.
(c) Seth Gale.
(d) Jack Armstrong.

2. What is the local gossip in New Salem about Ann Rutledge?
(a) She is secretly a witch.
(b) She is in line for a job as the town's teacher.
(c) She is in love with Abe Lincoln.
(d) She has been jilted by her fiance, who left town.

3. What is Lincoln's response to a poem he reads regarding life and death?
(a) He finds it strange: "I don't get the meaning of it, at all."
(b) It depresses him: "Life is sure 'nuff short, why think about death?"
(c) He likes it: "It sure is good...it's fine!
(d) He is inspired to write his own poetry: "I've got a thought, Teacher, give me a pencil."

4. In a poem given to Lincoln by his teacher in the first scene, life is compared to what?
(a) A river, a meadow, the wide horizon.
(b) A fairy tale, a legend, a lie.
(c) A dream, a vision, a phantom.
(d) A nightmare, a hallucination, a ghost.

5. According to Nancy Green in Act 1, Scene 3, why can't Lincoln face life without a woman by his side?
(a) Because he hears voices in the night and they give him contradictory directions.
(b) Because he goes into trances when under stress and needs someone to help him snap out of it.
(c) Because he listens to strange voices that speak to him in church and they command him to do bad things.
(d) Because he hears the whispers of the dead women in his life, including his mother, and he can't understand what the whispers mean.