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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 – 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Willie Lincoln when he died?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

2. Who wrote Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House?
(a) Elizabeth Keckley.
(b) Rose Milland.
(c) Ben Wade.
(d) Daniel Mark Epstein.

3. What does the narrator describe having happened to him on the day he and his wife plan to consummate their marriage in Chapter 1?
(a) He was hit by a train.
(b) He was hit by a car.
(c) A beam fell on him.
(d) He was shot in the back.

4. What literary work is attributed to Ruth Painter Randall in the book?
(a) Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House.
(b) Twenty Days.
(c) Our Capital in Time of War.
(d) Lincoln’s Sons.

5. Who is cited as the author of A Thrilling Youth: A Civil War Adolescence?
(a) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(b) Margaret Garrett.
(c) Jo Brunt.
(d) E. G. Frame.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln?

2. Who wrote Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865?

3. Who is cited as the editor of Selected Civil War Letters of Edwine Willow?

4. Who is cited as the author of The Washington Powers?

5. Who is the Prussian nobleman that attended the Lincolns' state dinner, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

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