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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 happens to Ann Rutledge?
(a) She runs away to Chicago to attend law school.
(b) Bitten by a mosquito, she is paralzyed and left speechless.
(c) She meets a wealthy man, marries him and moves West.
(d) She dies of a brain sickness.

2. Why is Ann's death such a setback to Lincoln?
(a) He doesn't feel he will be taken seriously as a candidate if he is single.
(b) He fears any woman who loves him is doomed to an early death, like his mother.
(c) He depended on Ann's connections to the politically powerful in Washington.
(d) Ann wrote his speeches; without her, he has nothing to say.

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

4. One of Lincoln's clients can't pay her bill; why does Lincoln think she is right not to pay?
(a) He believes she is going to inherit a lot of money, so he can wait for payment.
(b) Lincoln defended her husband unsuccessfully and he was hanged.
(c) Lincoln took a horse from her late husband in payment.
(d) She is a poor widow and Lincoln doesn't take money from widows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Lincoln give in Act 2, Scene 4 for turning down the opportunity to speak against slavery?

2. In Act 2, Scene 4, who arrives unexpectedly at Lincoln's office to visit?

3. What happens at the end of Act 2, Scene 4 that proves Lincoln's claim that he is a social success?

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

5. What does Lincoln do that impresses Ninian Edwards in Act 1, Scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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