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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Union warship that goes to battle with the Confederate Merrimack?
(a) The Union.
(b) The Icon.
(c) The Republic.
(d) The Monitor.

2. Which famous Civil War battle takes place in Chapter 12?
(a) Antietam.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Shiloh.
(d) Gettysburg.

3. Who wins the presidential election in 1864?
(a) McClellan.
(b) Grant.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Lincoln.

4. Who is Mrs. Laury?
(a) Mrs. Lincoln's hair stylist.
(b) Mrs. Lincoln's spiritual medium.
(c) Mrs. Lincoln's social secretary.
(d) Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker.

5. Why does William Howard Russell, a London Times correspondent, think the South will win the war?
(a) It is more highly motivated.
(b) It has better weapons.
(c) It has more troops.
(d) It has West Point generals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chevalier Wikoff offer to give the U.S. government if his son receives a naval commission?

2. What is the name of the plan which called for Seward to run the government with Lincoln as a figurehead?

3. What does Lincoln think will be necessary in order to wage war?

4. Who is Lincoln's former law partner?

5. Whose marriage proposal does Kate Chase accept?

(see the answer key)

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