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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why were Democrats critical of Lincoln?
(a) For suppressing free speech.
(b) For his generals' ambitious and aggressive tactics.
(c) For cutting off ties with England and France.
(d) For failing to earn his generals' loyalty.

3. What happened to Lincoln's career after the 1858 election?
(a) He was invited to serve as a diplomat to France.
(b) He was abandoned by the Republican Party.
(c) He began to enjoy a reputation outside of Illinois.
(d) He declined to enter into national politics until the Illinois state Republican Party was unified.

4. Where did Lincoln deliver an address in front of prominent Republican Party members?
(a) Cooper Union.
(b) Congress.
(c) The Illinois Statehouse.
(d) The National Mall.

5. What was the issue at the heart of the issue that brought Lincoln back to politics?
(a) Manifest Destiny.
(b) The Gold Standard.
(c) The Monroe Doctrine.
(d) Popular sovereignty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lincoln's feeling about the image his advisers associated him with?

2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

3. Why did Lincoln ultimately appoint Halleck as General-in-Chief?

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

5. What did Hooker fail to do at Chancellorsville, in Lincoln's estimation?

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