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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. Whom does the narrator say died in the terrible fight in the opening of Chapter 41?
(a) Elson Farwell.
(b) Margaret Garrett.
(c) Jo Brunt.
(d) Tom Gilman.

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

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

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

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 Who claims that his brilliant unpublished tomes were burned in Chapter 65?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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was President Polk succeeded by?

2. Who wrote the book Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War?

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

4. Who is attributed with writing Letters of a Union Fellow in Chapter 70?

5. Who is Tobin "Badger" Muller's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the focus on the excerpts in Chapter 47?

2. How do the protagonists manage to sway Lincoln from leaving in Chapter 77?

3. What regrets are presented in Chapter 48?

4. How are the Crutcher brothers and Mr. and Mrs. Reedy described?

5. What is the outcome of the young lovers that is described in Chapter 77?

6. Why do Vollman and Bevins try to persuade Lincoln to return to the mausoleum in Chapter 51?

7. How did Elson Farwell die?

8. To what does Lance Durning attest in Chapter 65?

9. What are the prides of Professor Edmund Bloomer and Lawrence T. Decroix?

10. What is described in the account of Paul Riles, White House guard in Chapter 57?

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