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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. Who are the main characters in the first scene of the play?
(a) Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln.
(b) Abe Lincoln and Mentor Graham.
(c) Mentor Graham, Seth Gale and Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) Abe Lincoln and Seth Gale.

2. Besides debt, what topic often occupies Lincoln's mind?
(a) The prospect of civil war.
(b) The prospect of death.
(c) The prospect of marriage.
(d) The prospect of a harsh winter.

3. In a poem given to Lincoln by his teacher in the first scene, life is compared to what?
(a) A nightmare, a hallucination, a ghost.
(b) A fairy tale, a legend, a lie.
(c) A dream, a vision, a phantom.
(d) A river, a meadow, the wide horizon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, besides politics, does Lincoln have on his mind during the scene in the Rutledge Tavern?

2. In Scene 2, Act 4, what office is Lincoln seeking?

3. What are three things Lincoln likes about Ann Rutledge?

4. Why does Lincoln return to New Salem in Act 1, Scene 3?

5. What is the subject of the speech Lincoln is studying in the first scene?

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