1. What is Billy Herndon's flaw?
(a) He cheats at cards.
(b) He drinks too much and too often.
(c) He kills compulsively.
(d) He is a womanizer.

2. What do Josh Speed and Bowling Green think might be the result, if slavery spreads further across the South?
(a) The South could overthrow the existing government and move the Capitol to Virginia.
(b) Civil war might break out.
(c) Lincoln could be drafted to head the military.
(d) The British would reassert power over the colonies.

3. Why does Bowling Green call Lincoln "an artful dodger" in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Lincoln has left a number of women at the altar.
(b) Lincoln manages to slip away from debt collectors just when they are closing in on him.
(c) Lincoln is an accomplished amateur boxer who never takes a blow to the chin.
(d) Lincoln continually evades running for any office that would require him to take a public stand on slavery.

4. What, besides politics, does Lincoln have on his mind during the scene in the Rutledge Tavern?
(a) Asking town officials for a raise in his wages as postmaster.
(b) Asking Ann Rutledge to consider him as a suitor.
(c) Taking over the family farm from his sick father.
(d) Running down to the town picnic for a piece of pie.

5. What does Lincoln do that impresses Ninian Edwards in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Lincoln announces there is free pie in the town square.
(b) Lincoln diffuses the tension with the Clancy Groves boys.
(c) Lincoln gets everyone's attention by firing his pistol at the ceiling.
(d) Lincoln punches a bully who is threatening Ann Rutledge.