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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 42 means to cease to resist an opponent?
(a) Eradicate.
(b) Emulate.
(c) Capitulate.
(d) Articulate.

2. What are the names of the nightwatchman's children?
(a) Paul and Elizabeth.
(b) Philip, Mary, and Jack.
(c) Mary, Anna, and Sara.
(d) Sara and James.

3. Who is cited as the author of “Setting the Record Straight: Memoir, Error, and Evasion" in Chapter 47?
(a) Jo Brunt.
(b) Elson Farwell.
(c) Margaret Garrett.
(d) Jason Trumm.

4. Who is attributed as the editor for Forgotten Voices of the Civil War?
(a) J. B. Strait.
(b) Maureen H. Hedges.
(c) Robert G. Twistings.
(d) Stephen Sears.

5. What does Mr. Bevins describe the experience of stepping into Lincoln as being like in Chapter 45?
(a) Stepping into fresh snowfall.
(b) Walking into traffic.
(c) Riding on a horse at dusk.
(d) Stepping into a summer barn at night.

6. Who is the fictional author that is attributed with writing The Spiritual Lincoln: An Essential Journey?
(a) C. R. DePage.
(b) Margaret Garrett.
(c) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(d) Marshall Turnbull.

7. What are described as the furies that haunt houses where a children dies, according to the narrator in Chapter 73?
(a) Blame and Guilt.
(b) Sorrow and Grief.
(c) Faith and Virtue.
(d) Regret and Desire.

8. Who succeeded President Pierce?
(a) President Buchanan.
(b) President Polk.
(c) President Taylor.
(d) President Lincoln.

9. Whose account is the focus of The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to the Civil War, 1859–1861 by Allan Nevins?
(a) Stephen Sears'.
(b) Tobian Clearly's.
(c) Edward Everett's.
(d) Robert G. Twistings'.

10. Whose account is described in Voices of a Divided Land?
(a) Theodore Blasgen's.
(b) Stephen Sears'.
(c) P. Mallon's.
(d) Robert G. Twistings.

11. When was Minnesota admitted as a U.S. state?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1858.

12. Who is the slave who speaks in a complicated and elaborate manner in Chapter 66?
(a) Robert G. Twistings.
(b) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.
(c) Elson Farwell.
(d) Tobian Clearly.

13. Who was President Polk succeeded by?
(a) President Lincoln.
(b) President Polk.
(c) President Taylor.
(d) President Tyler

14. What is discovered in Lincoln's trouser pocket in Chapter 53?
(a) A watch.
(b) A lock.
(c) A letter.
(d) A pin.

15. What does the narrator call the statue of the bald man in Roman garb that he describes in Chapter 59?
(a) Perseus.
(b) Paul.
(c) Morty.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tobin "Badger" Muller's wife?

2. Who is cited as the author of "These Battle Memories" in Chapter 47?

3. Whose house does the Reverend Thomas describe next to his own as he died in Chapter 61?

4. Who attempts to drive the black former slaves across the fence in Chapter 66?

5. Who is attributed with writing Letters of a Union Fellow in Chapter 70?

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