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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How can Mrs. Lincoln's personality best be described?
(a) Retiring.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Aggressive.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Seward think will happen to Lincoln?

2. Who supplies White House gossip to those at Thompson's Drug Store?

3. What order does Lincoln issue about Fort Sumter in Chapter 11?

4. What does Wikoff publish in the New York Herald?

5. Who arrives on the train with Lincoln's secretaries?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is David Herold shaken when he sees the result of a coded message he had carried but had not been able to deliver?

2. What is the purpose of Stephen Douglas' visit to the White House?

3. What is Lincoln's position on blacks at the beginning of the novel and how does that change as the story evolves?

4. What is David Herold's first mission as a rebel courier and what is he told to focus on going forward?

5. What is the nature of Chase's talks with Jay Cooke?

6. What does Lincoln do regarding Salmon P. Chase on the day after his inauguration that angers Chase?

7. Who is Elizabeth Keckley and what is her role in the Lincoln White House?

8. What is the issue regarding Lincoln's Kentucky relatives during this time?

9. What is Lincoln's plan to attack the Confederacy as discussed in Chapter 18?

10. What is the mood in Washington as Chapter 15 begins and what is on Seward's mind regarding Lincoln's presidency?

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