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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Union warship that goes to battle with the Confederate Merrimack?
(a) The Republic.
(b) The Icon.
(c) The Monitor.
(d) The Union.

2. What does Chevalier Wikoff offer to give the U.S. government if his son receives a naval commission?
(a) An island.
(b) A gold mine.
(c) One million dollars.
(d) A yacht.

3. Which of the following is NOT true about the new Congress?
(a) Women will be given five seats.
(b) It is largely Republican.
(c) It will be all-Northern.
(d) It is abolitionist.

4. From whose perspective is Part 1, Chapter 8 NOT viewed?
(a) Salmon P. Chase.
(b) The conspirators.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) The presidential secretaries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what grounds does Seward think Lincoln can be impeached?

2. Who arrives on the train with Lincoln's secretaries?

3. With what does Mrs. Lincoln spend much of her time?

4. What do the people of Virginia do on the first day of the battle in Virginia?

5. Who does Chase want excluded from a position in Lincoln's cabinet?

(see the answer key)

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