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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage?
(a) Jo Brunt.
(b) Margaret Garrett.
(c) James Morgan.
(d) Daniel Mark Epstein.

2. Who is cited as the editor of Selected Civil War Letters of Edwine Willow?
(a) Constance Mays.
(b) Margaret Garrett.
(c) Jo Brunt.
(d) James Morgan.

3. Who are the children that are constantly receiving presents in the vignette at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Tad and Willie.
(b) Antoine and Jackson.
(c) John and Jerry.
(d) James and Jasper.

4. Who is the author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) James Morgan.
(b) Maxwell Flagg.
(c) Jo Brunt.
(d) Doris Kearns Goodwin.

5. 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 car.
(b) He was hit by a train.
(c) A beam fell on him.
(d) He was shot in the back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed as the writer of All This Did I See: Memories of a Terrible Time in Chapter 2?

2. Who was Abraham Lincoln's secretary during his first term?

3. Who did Roger Bevins III fall in love with that did not reciprocate his feelings?

4. Who is attributed as the author of Essay Upon the Loss of a Child?

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

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