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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why were the western states unhappy with the Civil War?
(a) They were not protected from Indians.
(b) Their trade with the South was disrupted.
(c) Their resources were consumed by the war.
(d) Their territorial expansion was halted.

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

5. 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 accepted it but had disliked manual labor.
(d) He loved it having enjoyed splitting rails.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position was Lincoln offered when he left Washington, DC.?

2. What did Lincoln tell his friends after he was elected President in 1860?

3. What is considered the most controversial action Lincoln took during the Civil War?

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

5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

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