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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lincoln's feeling about the image his advisers associated him with?
(a) He forced them to choose another image.
(b) He let it pass in silence, neither embracing it nor refusing it.
(c) He loved it having enjoyed splitting rails.
(d) He accepted it but had disliked manual labor.

2. What did the Battle of Antietam indicate for Lincoln?
(a) That he should change generals.
(b) That God smiled on the Union.
(c) That he should abandon emancipation for now.
(d) That he should bolster his support before making any new offensives.

3. Whom did Lincoln follow around through his home county?
(a) Other lawyers.
(b) The district judge.
(c) His business partner.
(d) Newspapermen.

4. How did Lincoln get involved with the Republican Party?
(a) He was nominated to be their candidate for U.S. President.
(b) He was nominated to be their candidate for state legislature.
(c) He was nominated to be their candidate for U.S. Senate.
(d) He was nominated to be their candidate for U.S. legislature.

5. How did Lincoln participate in the 1862 elections?
(a) He did not campaign for Republican Party candidates.
(b) He brought out crowds wherever he went, and he threw their support behind Republican Party candidates.
(c) He ran the war from his campaign stops.
(d) He helped Republican Party candidates raise money.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Lincoln elected to Congress?

2. Why did Lincoln decline to serve in the seat he was elected to in 1852?

3. What was Lincoln's stance on blacks' equality?

4. Who was William Herndon?

5. How did Lincoln complete his journey from Springfield to Washington, DC?

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