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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of President-elect Lincoln's bodyguard?
(a) Gilooly.
(b) Hodgson.
(c) Kavanagh.
(d) O'Reilly.

2. What reason does Lincoln give in Act 2, Scene 4 for turning down the opportunity to speak against slavery?
(a) He is feuding with the president of the organization that wants him to speak.
(b) He is pro-slavery.
(c) He has a date on the night of the rally.
(d) The sponsoring organization is "a pack of hell-raising fanatics."

3. What is the mood of the crowd surging around Lincoln at the railroad station?
(a) There was no crowd, it was pouring rain.
(b) Happy and admiring.
(c) Disapproving and sullen.
(d) Hostile and silent.

4. What are the two professions open to people who fail at everything else, according to Lincoln's teacher?
(a) School teaching and store keeping.
(b) Journalism and law.
(c) School teaching and politics.
(d) Politics and prospecting.

5. What is Lincoln's new attitude toward God after Ann's death?
(a) He knows if he had prayed day and night, Ann would have lived.
(b) He can't pray to a God that needlessly allowed Ann to die.
(c) He accepts that "the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."
(d) He becomes an atheist.

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. Seth Gale tells Abe he's feeling "pretty scared" about his son's health. What does Lincoln tell him?

3. Who wrote the poem that Lincoln's teacher gives him to read?

4. Who have Bowling Green, Ninian Edwards and Josh Speed come to New Salem to see?

5. How does the playwright describe the appearance of Stephen Douglas as he takes the stage to debate Lincoln?

(see the answer key)

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