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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Webster had successfully argued how many cases?
(a) 180
(b) 34
(c) 75
(d) 209

2. For the living, one should offer ________________.
(a) Advice
(b) Happiness
(c) Solidarity
(d) Lament

3. What pastime interested Lincoln?
(a) Boating
(b) Dressage
(c) Analytical exercises
(d) Aerobics

4. What was the name of the Northern army?
(a) Bluecoats
(b) Liberators
(c) Union
(d) Yankee

5. To whom was Everett often compared?
(a) Pericles
(b) Odin
(c) Aristotle
(d) Socrates

Short Answer Questions

1. What word was never used by Lincoln in referring to those who committed illegal acts?

2. Webster and Clay both supported what cause?

3. Lincoln is known for using words as _____________.

4. Lincoln was considered to be less a politician and more a _________________.

5. How many years did Henry Clay serve in politics?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the running joke between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?

2. Spiritualism was very popular in Lincoln's time. List at three forms of spirituality practiced at this time and explain each.

3. What did Lincoln claim was the founding document of the United States? Why?

4. Lincoln's problem was thought to give the President what advantage? What did Lincoln's contemporaries think of his ailment?

5. What habit of Lincoln's was worrisome to his family? Why were they worried?

6. Why did Mrs. Lincoln engage in contact with the spirit world? How was this done?

7. How did Edward Everett tie into the revival?

8. Why was it important for Lincoln to avoid the issue of interracial marriage?

9. What famous writers often used themes of the ancient Greeks in their works?

10. Lincoln believed that the tone of his address would have to reflect what emotions and beliefs?

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