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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 8-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can David Herold best be described?
(a) Serene and calm.
(b) Emotional time bomb.
(c) Common and fatalistic.
(d) Intelligent and optimistic.

2. With whom does Lincoln side when believing that black men are not inferior to white men?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

3. Who arrives on the train with Lincoln's secretaries?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Mrs. Lincoln.
(c) Robert E. Lee.
(d) John Wilkes Booth.

4. Chapter 4 sees the arrival of Lincoln's secretaries, John Hay and ________________.
(a) Nicholas Nickleby.
(b) John George Paul.
(c) John George Nicolay.
(d) Nikolai Surratt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What office does Kate Chase expect her father to attain in 1864?

2. Who is the defeated rival who visits Lincoln and calls for militiamen to defend Washington?

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

4. Who supplies White House gossip to those at Thompson's Drug Store?

5. Which of the following characteristics is NOT used to describe Lincoln?

(see the answer key)

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