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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day does Lincoln arrive in Washington?
(a) January 1, 1860.
(b) February 23, 1861.
(c) December 31, 1914.
(d) April 15, 1865.

2. Which of the following characteristics is NOT used to describe Lincoln?
(a) Overweight.
(b) Fatalism.
(c) Droll humor.
(d) Exhausted.

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Kate Chase's relationship with her father?
(a) Councilor.
(b) Cook.
(c) Daughter.
(d) Soul mate.

4. What do conspirators Annie Surrat and David Herold call Lincoln?
(a) Assassin.
(b) Hero.
(c) Archfiend.
(d) Traitor.

5. With whom does John Hay frequently spend time?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Ministers.
(c) Lobbyists.
(d) Prostitutes.

6. How does Salmon P. Chase propose to pay for a war?
(a) Tobacco tax.
(b) Fundraising.
(c) Income tax.
(d) Borrow money from England.

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

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

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

10. On what grounds does Seward think Lincoln can be impeached?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Sexual impropriety.
(c) Military aggression.
(d) Treason.

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

12. Who meets Lincoln at the train station in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Elihu B. Woodborne.
(b) Elijah C. Washburne.
(c) Edward L. Washburn.
(d) Elihu B. Washburne.

13. What is the coded message that David Herold carries across the river?
(a) "Lucifer, the god of the reviled, and downtrodden."
(b) "The cock crows at the hour of Lucifer's awakening."
(c) "Lucifer, god of the just and keeper of armaments."
(d) "Lucifer, the son of morning, and Satan."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Lincoln respond to Col. Ellsworth's body being laid out at the White House?

2. Why is a secret Cabinet meeting held in the Naval Department?

3. What does Mrs. Lincoln hold regularly?

4. What idea does Seward have for reuniting the North and the South?

5. Where does David Herold take a job?

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