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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Lincoln married?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1830.

2. When did the Southern states secede?
(a) Before Lincoln's inauguration.
(b) Immediately after the 1860 election.
(c) The day of Lincoln's inauguration.
(d) As soon as Lincoln was inaugurated.

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

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

5. What was the status of the family of Lincoln's father?
(a) Destitute.
(b) Prosperous.
(c) Poor.
(d) Rich.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What important event took place after Lincoln returned to Illinois?

3. What issue returned Lincoln to politics?

4. Who was Stephen Logan?

5. Why did Lincoln move back to Illinois after his first term in Washington, DC?

(see the answer key)

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