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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who attempts to drive the black former slaves across the fence in Chapter 66?
(a) Robert G. Twistings.
(b) Thomas Havens.
(c) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.
(d) Tobian Clearly.

2. Who is Hans Vollman's love that he has left behind?
(a) Sara.
(b) Marie.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Anna.

3. What is said to have happened to the young wife that the spirits performed l'occupation upon in Chapter 77?
(a) She was shot by her husband.
(b) She overdosed.
(c) She hung herself.
(d) She was poisoned by her husband.

4. Whose account is the focus of The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to the Civil War, 1859–1861 by Allan Nevins?
(a) Robert G. Twistings'.
(b) Tobian Clearly's.
(c) Edward Everett's.
(d) Stephen Sears'.

5. Who is the nightwatchman that appears in Chapter 67?
(a) Mr. Manders.
(b) Robert G. Twistings.
(c) Thomas Havens.
(d) Tobian Clearly.

6. Whose account is described in They Knew Him, edited by Leonora Morehouse?
(a) Theodore Blasgen's.
(b) Stephen Sears'.
(c) Maureen H. Hedges'.
(d) E. G. Frame's.

7. Who claims to have owned a pickle factory in Chapter 65?
(a) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.
(b) Eddie Baron.
(c) Thomas Havens.
(d) Lawrence T. Decroix.

8. When does the Reverend Thomas say he died in Chapter 61?
(a) April.
(b) March.
(c) June.
(d) September.

9. Whose account of the Lincoln home is described in Chapter 56?
(a) Paul Riles's.
(b) Margaret Garrett.
(c) Marshall Turnbull.
(d) Daniel Mark Epstein's.

10. Whose account is described in Voices of a Divided Land?
(a) Theodore Blasgen's.
(b) Stephen Sears'.
(c) P. Mallon's.
(d) Robert G. Twistings.

11. What is the narrator's relationship to the person he is addressing in Chapter 41?
(a) She is his sister.
(b) She is his wife.
(c) She is his daughter.
(d) She is his mother.

12. Who details the life of Litzy Wright in Chapter 66?
(a) Thomas Havens.
(b) Tobian Clearly.
(c) Mrs. Francis Hodge.
(d) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.

13. Who is attributed with writing A Belle Remade: The Journey of Mary Lincoln in Chapter 58?
(a) Margaret Garrett.
(b) Kevin Swarney.
(c) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(d) Marshall Turnbull.

14. Who is the outspoken former boilermaker that occupies Lincoln in Chapter 77?
(a) E. G. Frame.
(b) Litzie.
(c) Mr. Cahoes.
(d) Stephen Sears.

15. Who claims that his brilliant unpublished tomes were burned in Chapter 65?
(a) Thomas Havens.
(b) Elton Traynor.
(c) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.
(d) Professor Edmund Bloomer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the fictional author attributed with writing A Mother’s Trial: Mary Lincoln and the Civil War in Chapter 58?

2. Who shared opium with the Barons?

3. Where does the Reverend Thomas say the red-bearded man he encountered after his death was from in Chapter 61?

4. Who is the fictional author that is attributed with writing The Spiritual Lincoln: An Essential Journey?

5. Who are listed as the compilers and editors of “That Terrible Glory: A Collection of Civil War Letters from the Men Who Fought It" in Chapter 47?

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