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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 is the river that David Herold crosses on his first mission as a rebel courier?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Potomac.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Mississippi.

2. What office does Roger B. Taney hold?
(a) Chief of Staff.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Attorney General.
(d) Chief Justice.

3. What city does Lincoln decide to strike before the Confederate Congress can begin?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Atlanta.

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

5. What is the plan of the Southern states?
(a) To secede from the Union.
(b) To become more industrial.
(c) To abolish slavery.
(d) To form agricultural co-ops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true about the new Congress?

2. Salmon P. Chase is visited by Henry D. and _________ Cooke to discuss Lincoln and cabinet posts.

3. What office does Kate Chase expect her father to attain in 1864?

4. What is the coded message that David Herold carries across the river?

5. From what state do the first Union troops arrive in Washington?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lincoln accidentally lose and who will take advantage of this?

3. How can Lincoln's Inauguration Day be considered lackluster?

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

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

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

7. How does Vidal describe Lincoln in the early part of the novel?

8. What is the Albany Plan and how does it set the stage for political machinations throughout the novel?

9. Explain the premise of Part 1, Chapters 1-7.

10. How does the White House respond to Col. Ellsworth's death?

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