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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the defeated rival who visits Lincoln and calls for militiamen to defend Washington?
(a) Salmon P. Chase.
(b) John Hay.
(c) Stephen Douglas.
(d) Andrew Johnson.

2. Who is the scandalous reporter for the New York Herald?
(a) Jacques Wyatt.
(b) Chace Adams.
(c) John Hay.
(d) Chevalier Wikoff.

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

4. What is the main event in Part 1, Chapter 8?
(a) Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
(b) Lincoln's funeral.
(c) Lincoln's inauguration.
(d) Lincoln's visit to Antietam.

5. Who stalks Lincoln as he walks to church with Seward?
(a) Thomas Paterson.
(b) Mary Surratt.
(c) John Wilkes Booth.
(d) David Herold.

6. What does Wikoff publish in the New York Herald?
(a) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Mrs. Lincoln's redecorating bills.
(d) Lincoln's secret message to Congress.

7. What topic does Sprague talk about when he takes Kate riding?
(a) The fashions coming out of Paris.
(b) His new stable of horses.
(c) His military strategy.
(d) The shortage of cotton for New England mills.

8. Who is Emilie Helm?
(a) Mrs. Lincoln's half-sister.
(b) Mrs. Lincoln's seamstress.
(c) Mrs. Lincoln's social secretary.
(d) Mrs. Lincoln's best friend.

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

10. With what does Mrs. Lincoln spend much of her time?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Redecorating.
(c) Tutoring.
(d) Praying.

11. Sumner sees freeing the slaves to be _________________.
(a) a waste of time.
(b) the moral choice.
(c) a military necessity.
(d) a religious imperative.

12. Who escorts Lincoln on a tour of Washington?
(a) William Surratt.
(b) Walter Hope.
(c) William Seward.
(d) Henry Clay.

13. Why has Lincoln arrived in Washington in great secrecy?
(a) He wants to avoid the media.
(b) He wants to surprise his family.
(c) He wants to avoid big crowds.
(d) There is a plot against his life.

14. What is the mood in Washington as Chapter 14 begins?
(a) Boisterous.
(b) At war.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Riotous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William Seward harshly critique about Lincoln?

2. Why does William Howard Russell, a London Times correspondent, think the South will win the war?

3. Seward and _____________ emerge as the Cabinet's leading figures.

4. What has no other U.S. President ever had to face?

5. What does Lincoln ask John Hay to research?

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