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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Lincoln hold regularly?
(a) Sewing circle.
(b) Prayer meeting.
(c) Levee.
(d) Book club meeting.

2. Part 1, Chapters 1-7 focus on the days between Abraham Lincoln's arrival in Washington, D.C. and ________.
(a) His assassination.
(b) His inauguration.
(c) The Gettysburg Address.
(d) The Emancipation Proclamation.

3. Who does Chase want excluded from a position in Lincoln's cabinet?
(a) Anyone under the age of 60.
(b) Anyone from a slave-holding state.
(c) Anyone who did not go to West Point.
(d) Anyone who has not served on the Supreme Court.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Lincoln's sons?
(a) Tad.
(b) Willie.
(c) George.
(d) Robert.

5. What does Lincoln ask John Hay to research?
(a) The president's wartime powers.
(b) The budget for White House renovations.
(c) The etiquette for entertaining visiting heads of state.
(d) Thomas Jefferson's speeches.

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

7. What does Seward think will happen to Lincoln?
(a) He will be impeached.
(b) He will be kidnapped.
(c) He will be assassinated.
(d) He will have a heart attack.

8. Who is the noted Union officer shot dead in the invasion of Alexandria?
(a) General Grant.
(b) Lieutenant Ashe.
(c) Col. Peabody.
(d) Col. Ellsworth.

9. What is the name of the plan which called for Seward to run the government with Lincoln as a figurehead?
(a) Transition Plan.
(b) Shadow Plan.
(c) Albany Plany.
(d) Schnectady Plan.

10. Which of Mrs. Lincoln's projects ultimately brings scandal to the White House?
(a) Redecorating the White House.
(b) Entertaining slaves.
(c) Funding the Underground Railroad.
(d) Hiring Russian servants.

11. Who is the U.S. president that Lincoln succeeds?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Buchanan.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Jefferson.

12. Who is overwhelmed by Kate Chase's beauty?
(a) John Surratt.
(b) John Hay.
(c) David Herold.
(d) William Sprague.

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

14. Which general does Lincoln order to take command after McDowell's retreat?
(a) General Grant.
(b) General Chamberlain.
(c) General McClellan.
(d) General Burnside.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT describe Kate Chase's relationship with her father?

2. Who believes that one must experience hell before dying, not after?

3. From what state do the first Union troops arrive in Washington?

4. What topic does Sprague talk about when he takes Kate riding?

5. Who meets Lincoln at the train station in Washington, D.C.?

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