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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Lincoln and Mary secretly became engaged, and set November 4th as their wedding date. When did they tell her family?
(a) On the morning of the wedding.
(b) A month after the wedding.
(c) The day after the wedding.
(d) Two days before the wedding.
2. Lincoln became known as what because of his tough pioneer background and his legal work with the railroad?
(a) The railroad man.
(b) The rail splitter.
(c) The railroad pioneer.
(d) The Midwestern Davy Crockett.
3. When the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was passed, it left the status of slavery up to who?
(a) The people who settled in the territory.
(b) The Governors.
(c) Congress.
(d) The President.
4. Lincoln and Mary resolved to be friends, and even wrote what together?
(a) Political satire.
(b) Political articles.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Novels.
5. Lincoln was a member of what political party?
(a) The Whig party.
(b) The Green party.
(c) The Democratic party.
(d) The Know-Nothing party.
Short Answer Questions
1. Describe Robert Todd.
2. After inauguration, the President passed what, declaring the Declaration a white man's document, and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in any of the territories?
3. In ____________, Lincoln met Mary Ann Todd, a witty young woman who could talk with him about politics.
4. In November Lincoln and Douglas had their first debate over what, starting a rivalry that would last years?
5. How did Douglas treat Lincoln at this debate?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Robert Lincoln.
2. What was the Dred Scott decision?
3. What did free-soilers think about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill? Why?
4. What political party did Lincoln join? Who were their rivals?
5. What was the Missouri Compromise? How did the Kansas-Nebraska Bill affect the Missouri Compromise?
6. With what is Lincoln concerned? How does he feel this issue should be handled?
7. Who were Abraham Lincoln's parents?
8. With what deaths do the Lincolns have to deal?
9. What children were born amid these deaths?
10. How did Mary and Abraham handle her family's desire to see their relationship end?
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