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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Amendment is suspended as many newspaper publishers are arrested?
(a) Second Amendment.
(b) Third Amendment.
(c) First Amendment.
(d) Fifth Amendment.

2. What does Lincoln order the U.S. marshals to do?
(a) Shoot rioters.
(b) Arrest any conspirators.
(c) Raid telegraph offices to determine spies.
(d) Set up roadblocks around Washington.

3. What order does Lincoln issue about Fort Sumter in Chapter 11?
(a) Surrender it.
(b) Re-supply it.
(c) Attack it.
(d) Burn it.

4. Which word does Lincoln turn to the crowd and emphasize while taking the oath of office?
(a) States.
(b) Defend.
(c) Union.
(d) God.

5. Seward and _____________ emerge as the Cabinet's leading figures.
(a) Blair.
(b) Woodburne.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Chase.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary Lincoln not attend Kate Chase's wedding?

2. What is the controversy surrounding Robert Lincoln during this time?

3. Whose face appears on the new U.S. dollar bill?

4. Who is Lincoln's former law partner?

5. What does Lincoln think when he is shot at again on the way to the Soldiers Home?

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