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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the fictional author attributed with writing A Mother’s Trial: Mary Lincoln and the Civil War in Chapter 58?
(a) Jayne Coster.
(b) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(c) Margaret Garrett.
(d) Marshall Turnbull.

2. For how long did Mrs. Lincoln stay in bed following her son's funeral?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 12 days.
(c) 6 days.
(d) 2 days.

3. What word from Chapter 42 means to cease to resist an opponent?
(a) Capitulate.
(b) Emulate.
(c) Eradicate.
(d) Articulate.

4. Who is the slave who speaks in a complicated and elaborate manner in Chapter 66?
(a) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.
(b) Robert G. Twistings.
(c) Elson Farwell.
(d) Tobian Clearly.

5. Who is said to have written Accidental Jehovah: Will, Focus, and the Great Deed?
(a) Theodore Blasgen.
(b) Robert G. Twistings.
(c) Stephen Sears.
(d) Kristen Toles.

6. Whose account is written in The War Years by Carl Sandburg?
(a) Stephen Sears'.
(b) Tobian Clearly's.
(c) Sherrard Clemens'.
(d) Robert G. Twistings'.

7. When was John Tyler in office as President of the United States?
(a) 1901-1905.
(b) 1862-1865.
(c) 1823-1826.
(d) 1841-1845.

8. Who is described by Roger Bevins III as the decapitated fellow in Chapter 52?
(a) Margaret Garrett.
(b) Elson Farwell.
(c) Marshall Turnbull.
(d) Ellers.

9. What made Litzie Wright a mute?
(a) Hereditary disease.
(b) Her throat was cut.
(c) Sexual assault.
(d) A field accident.

10. Who wrote the book Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War?
(a) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(b) Marshall Turnbull.
(c) James R. Gilmore.
(d) Margaret Garrett.

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 Who claims that his brilliant unpublished tomes were burned in Chapter 65?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

12. Who describes giving his mistress diamonds and pearls, though she later left him for Mr. Hollyfen in Chapter 65?
(a) Robert G. Twistings.
(b) Tobian Clearly.
(c) Marshall Turnbull.
(d) Maureen H. Hedges.

13. Who shared opium with the Barons?
(a) Jack.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) Paul.
(d) Michael.

14. Who confesses that she steals every chance she gets in Chapter 65?
(a) Tobian Clearly.
(b) Marshall Turnbull.
(c) Robert G. Twistings.
(d) Janice P. Dwightson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call the statue of the bald man in Roman garb that he describes in Chapter 59?

2. Who details the life of Litzy Wright in Chapter 66?

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

4. Herndon’s Informants is said to detail whose account in Chapter 72?

5. Whose account is the focus of The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to the Civil War, 1859–1861 by Allan Nevins?

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