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

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

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

4. What is the South fighting for in the Civil War?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Shipping.
(c) Independence.
(d) Slavery.

5. In what city was the Republican Party National Convention held in 1864?
(a) Washington.
(b) New York.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Baltimore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Kate Chase host in Part 2, Chapter 2?

2. What disease is McClellan purported to have?

3. Whose face appears on the new U.S. dollar bill?

4. On what day does Part 2, Chapter 1 take place?

5. Why does Mrs. Lincoln visit a wounded corporal from Lexington, Kentucky?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mrs. Lincoln hurt in an assassination attempt in Chapter 12?

2. What is the response from various groups to the Emancipation Proclamation and why is Lincoln concerned about the appearance of his signature on the document?

3. How does Seward attempt to prevent Mrs. Lincoln being involved in a scandal?

4. Who is William Herndon and what is the reason for his visit to see Lincoln?

5. How do the Lincolns respond when their young son, Willie, dies?

6. What are the circumstances of David Herold meeting John Wilkes Booth?

7. What name is the Republican party known as at the Baltimore convention and what are Lincoln's views of the convention?

8. Why do the rebel spies think that Herold has succeeded in poisoning Lincoln at the time he delivers the Gettysburg Address?

9. Why does Lincoln find humor in the rumor that McClellan may wage a military coup against him?

10. What honor does Grant receive in the midst of talk about his presidential aspirations?

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