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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Describe the temperament of Lincoln's wife.
(a) Subdued.
(b) Genial.
(c) Fiery.
(d) Subservient.

4. Whose seat was Lincoln gunning for in 1858?
(a) Stephen Douglas's.
(b) Jefferson Davis's.
(c) Millard Fillmore's.
(d) James Buchanan's.

5. Who was the President when Lincoln served in the Senate?
(a) Harrison.
(b) Polk.
(c) Taylor.
(d) Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lincoln beginning to be known for after years of traveling the court circuit?

2. How did Lincoln come to settle in New Salem, Illinois?

3. Who was Mary Owens?

4. Who was Stephen Douglas?

5. How were U.S. Senators elected in the 1850s?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Lincoln start his family?

2. Describe Lincoln's arrival in Springfield and early law practice.

3. What positions did Lincoln take in his career as a Whig legislator?

4. Describe the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

5. Describe the Lincolns' moves.

6. What was Lincoln's early relationship with his father like?

7. Describe Abraham Lincoln's period of aimlessness in Illinois.

8. What was the state of the Whig party in Illinois and elsewhere, during Lincoln's tenure?

9. Describe Lincoln's retirement from politics.

10. Describe Lincoln's temperament as a politician.

(see the answer keys)

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