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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

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 the benefits of taking land from Indians should be weighed.
(c) How leaders should make decisions.
(d) How men should enter marriage.

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

3. How does Donald describe the effect of Lincoln's loss of his mother?
(a) It made Lincoln staunch in his views.
(b) It made Lincoln protective of his family.
(c) It made Lincoln depressed and moody.
(d) It made Lincoln territorial and angry.

4. What was Lincoln's policy between the election in 1860 and his inauguration in 1861?
(a) To browbeat the Southern states.
(b) To anticipate the Civil War.
(c) Not to make speeches.
(d) To announce his policies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mary Todd?

2. What effect did slavery have on politics in the 1850s?

3. What was Lincoln beginning to be known for after years of traveling the court circuit?

4. What issue returned Lincoln to politics?

5. Who was Stephen Douglas?

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