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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lincoln mean by the phrase "cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason"?
(a) How money should be allocated to different causes.
(b) How men should enter marriage.
(c) How leaders should make decisions.
(d) How the benefits of taking land from Indians should be weighed.

2. Describe Lincoln's relationship with Joshua Speed.
(a) Close friendship.
(b) Antagonistic enmity.
(c) Formal dignity.
(d) Casual acquaintance.

3. Who was William Herndon?
(a) The lawyer with whom Lincoln left his law firm.
(b) An old suitor of Lincoln's wife.
(c) The shopkeeper in whose care Lincoln left his household belongings.
(d) Lincoln's father-in-law.

4. What does Donald say Lincoln was ruled by in his early career?
(a) Religiousness.
(b) Reason.
(c) Passions.
(d) Sentiment.

5. Who was Stephen Logan?
(a) Lincoln's father-in-law.
(b) Lincoln's roommate.
(c) Lincoln's colleague.
(d) Lincoln's law partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Lincoln's schooling.

2. What did Lincoln do in order to escape the hard work his father had done?

3. Describe Lincoln's relationship with his stepmother.

4. What did Lincoln know about his grandmother?

5. What was the status of the family of Lincoln's father?

(see the answer key)

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