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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What event does Kate Chase host in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Fourth of July picnic.
(b) Boxing Day Party.
(c) Christmas Eve Party.
(d) Thanksgiving Dinner.

3. Who is the general with whom Lincoln is frustrated in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) General Buford.
(b) General Rutherford.
(c) General Halleck.
(d) General Grant.

4. What is the name of the Union warship that goes to battle with the Confederate Merrimack?
(a) The Union.
(b) The Icon.
(c) The Monitor.
(d) The Republic.

5. Who is framed for leaking information to Wikoff?
(a) The White House groundskeeper.
(b) Secretary Steward.
(c) Kate Chase.
(d) David Herold.

6. Who is Lincoln's former law partner?
(a) William Herndon.
(b) Walter Herndon.
(c) William Henderson.
(d) Wade Harrison.

7. What happens when Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln are riding to a seance one day?
(a) The carriage wheel falls off.
(b) A crowd throws rocks at the carriage.
(c) An assassin fires a shot at the carriage.
(d) The carriage overturns in a ditch.

8. How many men is Lincoln forced to call up in Chapter 6?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 50,00.
(d) 10,000.

9. What famous document is written in Chapter 10?
(a) The Gettysburg Address.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Amendment Ten.
(d) The Hayes Act.

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

11. 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.

12. Who is the editor of the New York Tribune in 1864?
(a) Horace Greeley.
(b) Chevalier Wikoff.
(c) Edgar Harrison.
(d) Walt Whitman.

13. What disease does David Herold pretend to have in Part 3, Chapter 1?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Mesothelioma.
(d) Typhus.

14. Why is Mrs. Lincoln so upset in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) The Joint Committee has obtained a copy of Wikoff's telegram.
(b) Mr. Lincoln has threatened to divorce her if she does not curtail her spending.
(c) Mrs. Lincoln has been shunned from all the holiday parties on the social scene.
(d) Robert Lincoln is dating a woman of ill repute.

15. On what day does Part 2, Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Easter Day 1861.
(b) Christmas Day 1861.
(c) The Fourth of July 1862.
(d) New Year's Day 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous Civil War battle takes place in Chapter 12?

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

3. What premonitions does Lincoln have?

4. Which of the following does NOT apply to General Grant?

5. Which Union general proves incapable of overall command in Chapter 6?

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