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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subject is always heavy on Lincoln's mind?
(a) That if he ever gets out of debt, he'll get right back in again.
(b) That his partner will buy the store where Abe works and fire him.
(c) That he'll never have a chance to run for public office.
(d) That he will fail at the job of postmaster.

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

3. What is the plan that Seth Gale and Lincoln have for their futures?
(a) To relocate to Springfield and open a general store.
(b) To attend law school and go into practice together.
(c) To move west, to Nebraska.
(d) To move to California, in search of gold.

4. Who is Ninian Edwards?
(a) Uncle of Elizabeth Edwards.
(b) Son of the Illinois governor.
(c) A merchant passing through New Salem.
(d) Josh Speed's stepbrother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the first scene of Abe Lincoln in Illinois?

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

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

4. In a poem that Lincoln reads in the first scene, what is it that the poet finds strange about people?

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

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