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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Lincoln's career as he was being considered for President in 1860?
(a) His law firm was languishing.
(b) He was taking on business but not seeing it through.
(c) He was too busy to work for his law firm.
(d) His career was taking off.

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

3. Where did Lincoln's law clients come from?
(a) Local towns in Illinois.
(b) His hometown.
(c) Springfield.
(d) Vandalia.

4. What phrase did Lincoln introduce into the debate over slavery?
(a) All for one and one for all.
(b) Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
(c) E Pluribus Unum (From many, one).
(d) A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

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

7. What technological development allowed Lincoln to be home on the weekends?
(a) The telegraph.
(b) The automobile.
(c) The steam engine
(d) The telephone.

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

9. Who was Mary Owens?
(a) Lincoln's second fiancée.
(b) The wife of Lincoln's partner.
(c) Lincoln's mother-in-law.
(d) Lincoln's sister-in-law.

10. What was the Republican Party founded on?
(a) Opposition to slavery.
(b) Opposition to Women's Suffrage.
(c) Opposition to popular sovereignty.
(d) Opposition to the Gold Standard.

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

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

13. When was Lincoln born?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1809.

14. Who was the initial favorite for the nomination for President in the 1860 race?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Seward.
(c) Hamlin.
(d) Fillmore.

15. What was Lincoln's reaction to becoming engaged?
(a) Resplendent pride.
(b) Deep depression.
(c) Jubilation.
(d) Exhilaration.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lincoln campaign for President?

2. What did Lincoln do in order to escape the hard work his father had done?

3. About what did Lincoln speak out against as a Representative?

4. What happened to Lincoln's career after the 1858 election?

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

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