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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Lincoln's military career.
(a) Exceptional.
(b) Successful.
(c) Undistinguished.
(d) Extensive.

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

3. Describe Lincoln's relationship with his advisers.
(a) His advisers were all influential people whose ambitions often conflicted.
(b) His advisers were loyal to him but often disliked each other.
(c) His advisers were each experts but not always friendly with him.
(d) His advisers were known as a "cabinet of enemies".

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

5. Where did Lincoln's father start out before he moved to Illinois?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Donald describe the effect of Lincoln's loss of his mother?

2. What was Lincoln's policy between the election in 1860 and his inauguration in 1861?

3. Where did Lincoln deliver an address in front of prominent Republican Party members?

4. When did Lincoln's family move to Illinois?

5. Describe the relationship between Lincoln's wife and his business partner.

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