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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Act 2, Scene 5 and what does it convey about the occupants?
(a) The setting is Ninian Edwards' home and it conveys a sense of genteel poverty.
(b) The setting is Lincoln's log cabin and it conveys a feeling of bachelor solitude.
(c) The setting is the parlor of Ninian Edwards' home and it conveys a comfortable upper-class life.
(d) The setting is a grand ballroom and it conveys the gala celebration of political victory.

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

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

4. Why can't Lincoln bring himself to shoot a deer?
(a) Because he prefers bow-hunting.
(b) Because of the scene in "Bambi," in which his mother was killed.
(c) Because his mother was an anti-gun lobbyist.
(d) Because he once saw one running across his mother's grave.

5. What is the subject of the speech Lincoln is studying in the first scene?
(a) The right of states to secede from the Union; the speaker objects.
(b) South Carolina's decision to break away from North Carolina; the speaker approves.
(c) The upcoming union of North and South; the speaker objects.
(d) The right of states to secede from the Union; the speaker approves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Lincoln feel after Ann's death?

3. What is the mood of the speech Lincoln is asked to read in the first scene?

4. According to Nancy Green in Act 1, Scene 3, why can't Lincoln face life without a woman by his side?

5. What subject is always heavy on Lincoln's mind?

(see the answer key)

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