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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lincoln offered pardons for which sector of the public?
(a) Traitors
(b) Convicted soldiers
(c) Freed Slaves
(d) Slave owners

2. Which of these was not the basis for forming the American ideal?
(a) Every man has rights
(b) The government should protect those rights
(c) No man should be owned by another
(d) All men are created equal

3. The South instituted laws against what activity?
(a) Freeing personal slaves
(b) Traveling north
(c) Anti-slavery speeches
(d) Going to political rallies

4. Wills states that Lincoln used what type of imagery in the Gettysburg Address?
(a) Overextended
(b) Fertility
(c) Precise
(d) Muddled

5. Who preferred to focus on a policy of unconditional surrender?
(a) Herndon
(b) McPherson
(c) Webster
(d) Douglass

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was not a word used by Lincoln to describe the American Revolution?

2. What was Theodore Parker's profession?

3. According to Wills, Lincoln's speech is _______________.

4. In what city did Lincoln grow up?

5. Lincoln believed that war was objectionable on what terms?

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