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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Bowling Greens reading when Josh Speed arrives at their home in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) The New York Review of Books.
(b) The Federalist Papers.
(c) The Bourne Chronicles.
(d) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

2. Who have Bowling Green, Ninian Edwards and Josh Speed come to New Salem to see?
(a) Ann Rutledge.
(b) Seth Gale
(c) Abe Lincoln.
(d) Ben Mattling.

3. Why does Lincoln return to New Salem in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) The Greens have asked him to mediate in their divorce.
(b) Seth Gale summoned him with a letter.
(c) Ann Rutledge is sick.
(d) He has been kicked out of Springfiled for being drunk in public.

4. What does Billy Herndon urge Lincoln's friends to do, as Herndon leaves the office in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Dunk Lincoln in the river to wash away his stubborn streak.
(b) Introduce Lincoln to a good woman to marry.
(c) Take Lincoln out to dinner and get him drunk.
(d) Drag him out of the stagnant pool in which he is drowning himself.

5. Who wrote the poem that Lincoln's teacher gives him to read?
(a) John Singer Sargeant.
(b) John Brown.
(c) John Lennon.
(d) John Keats.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which holiday does Act 1, Scene 2 take place?

2. Besides debt, what topic often occupies Lincoln's mind?

3. What is Bowling Green's attitude toward the possibility of Lincoln marrying Ann Rutledge?

4. What is Lincoln's attitude about people before he meets Ann Rutledge?

5. What is the "good joke" Lincoln plans to tell Bowling Green at the end of Act 1, Scene 2 in the Rutledge Tavern?

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