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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Civil War battle costs the Union 15,000 casualties?
(a) Fredericksburg.
(b) Gettysburg.
(c) Vicksburg.
(d) Antietam.

2. Lincoln has evolved into a(n) ___________ in Chapter 5.
(a) Abolitionist.
(b) Atheist.
(c) spiritualist.
(d) Democrat.

3. What are Lincoln's thoughts in the 100 days prior to the election of 1864?
(a) He must finish what he was placed here to do.
(b) He has a real lust for more power.
(c) He thinks only of his boys.
(d) He knows he will be killed before the election.

4. Whose death plunges Mrs. Lincoln to the brink of madness in Chapter 4?
(a) Robert's.
(b) Tad's.
(c) Eddie's.
(d) Willie's.

5. Which of the following does NOT apply to General Grant?
(a) He is tried for treason.
(b) He refuses to make his headquarters in Washington.
(c) He becomes the first lieutenant general since George Washington.
(d) He insists he has no political interests.

6. How does Mrs. Lincoln attempt to talk to Willie after his death?
(a) She prays.
(b) She puts notes on his grave.
(c) She attends seances.
(d) She writes on glass.

7. Which of the following does Herndon NOT tell John Hay about Lincoln's days as a young man?
(a) He studied in Europe.
(b) He had mental breakdowns.
(c) He contracted syphilis.
(d) He did not believe in Christianity.

8. Even though he is a drunk, ___________ is deemed a better general than McClellan.
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) John Buford.
(c) Robert Burnside.
(d) John Chamberlain.

9. What does Lincoln say that Southerners are in Chapter 5?
(a) Fellow Americans.
(b) Traitors.
(c) Idiots.
(d) Morally corrupt.

10. Which notable poet seeks a Federal job?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) David Thoreau.

11. What happens to Lincoln while riding to the Soldiers Home in Chapter 6?
(a) He is thrown from his carriage.
(b) His horse throws him into a ditch.
(c) He falls and breaks his hip.
(d) His hat is shot off his head.

12. What disease is McClellan purported to have?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Tuberculosis.

13. Which Amendment is suspended as many newspaper publishers are arrested?
(a) Second Amendment.
(b) First Amendment.
(c) Third Amendment.
(d) Fifth Amendment.

14. Which Union general proves incapable of overall command in Chapter 6?
(a) Burnside.
(b) Chamberlain.
(c) Buford.
(d) Grant.

15. Who meets with smugglers to discuss how easy it would be to kill Lincoln?
(a) Duvall.
(b) Seward.
(c) McClellan.
(d) Wikoff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lincoln think when he is shot at again on the way to the Soldiers Home?

2. What disease does David Herold pretend to have in Part 3, Chapter 1?

3. David Herold is told to watch for Lincoln's movements and _____________________.

4. How much debt has Mrs. Lincoln incurred for the White House at this time?

5. Why is Lincoln assured of political victory in Chapter 6?

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