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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Everett taught what famous writer?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Mark Twain
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(d) Henry David Thoreau

2. Lincoln identified with what type of minister?
(a) Baptist
(b) Moonie
(c) Transcendentalist
(d) Conservative

3. Henry Clay was not a member of which political group?
(a) Whigs
(b) Judicial Branch
(c) Senate
(d) House of Representatives

4. Which of the following was not mentioned as one of Parker's political concerns?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Act
(b) Separation of church and state
(c) Slave colonies
(d) Political conspiracy

5. What was the name of the Southern army?
(a) Confederate
(b) Solidarity
(c) Unity
(d) Texan

6. What was Lincoln's wife's name?
(a) Helen
(b) Ruth
(c) Elizabeth
(d) Mary

7. Who was William Herndon?
(a) Lincoln's brother-in-law
(b) Davis' illegitimate son
(c) Lincoln's law partner
(d) Wills' grandfather

8. Abraham Lincoln's depression was often referred to as _________________.
(a) Distonia
(b) Consumption
(c) Vapors
(d) Melancholy

9. At whom did Lincoln often poke fun?
(a) Robert E. Lee
(b) Jefferson Davis
(c) Himself
(d) Stephen Douglas

10. What state did Henry Clay represent?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Ohio
(c) Virginia
(d) Louisiana

11. To whom did Webster present his arguments?
(a) Supreme Court
(b) American Medical Association
(c) The New York Times
(d) Congress

12. In classical oration, there are two parts: Epainesis and _______________.
(a) Symbiosis
(b) Paralysis
(c) Mytosis
(d) Parainesis

13. Lincoln said that the soldiers "gave their lives that the _____ may live."
(a) Founding Fathers
(b) Memories of Heroes
(c) Union
(d) Nation

14. Lincoln believed that what action would help to deter slavery?
(a) Confinement
(b) New laws
(c) Imprisonment for slave owners
(d) Political speeches

15. Lincoln's style made him good at writing what documents?
(a) Love letters
(b) Telegrams
(c) Legal briefs
(d) Thank you notes

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Lincoln often attend plays?

2. Where might one have this experience?

3. The issue of interracial marriage was considered to be what kind of issue?

4. Some believe that all American novels came out of what popular book?

5. What was Theodore Parker's profession?

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