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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. Who supplies White House gossip to those at Thompson's Drug Store?
(a) The White House doorkeeper.
(b) David Herold.
(c) Kate Chase.
(d) Lincoln's bodyguard.

2. What office does Kate Chase expect her father to attain in 1864?
(a) Supreme Court Justice.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Attorney General.
(d) U.S. President.

3. What is the river that David Herold crosses on his first mission as a rebel courier?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Potomac.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Mississippi.

4. Which of the following bad news does Lincoln NOT receive in Chapter 13?
(a) High-ranking military men defect.
(b) Rebel forces surround Washington.
(c) Mrs. Lincoln has tuberculosis.
(d) Telegraph and railroad lines are cut.

5. Chase and Seward agree between themselves that Lincoln must let them run the government as a ____________.
(a) socialist state.
(b) oligarchy.
(c) consulate.
(d) city state.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose perspective is Part 1, Chapter 8 NOT viewed?

2. What does Lincoln ask John Hay to research?

3. What order does Lincoln issue about Fort Sumter in Chapter 11?

4. What is the name of the plan which called for Seward to run the government with Lincoln as a figurehead?

5. How can Lincoln's inaugural parade best be characterized?

(see the answer key)

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