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

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

3. How does Donald describe Lincoln's political support for the Whig Presidential candidate?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Lackluster.
(c) Impassioned.
(d) Calculating.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hannibal Hamlin?

2. What did Lincoln believe he inherited from his grandmother?

3. What was Lincoln's stance on blacks' equality?

4. Who was Mary Todd?

5. What did Lincoln work on after the 1852 election?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lincoln's retirement from politics.

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

3. How did Lincoln finally get married?

4. Describe the Lincolns' moves.

5. How much is known about Lincoln's ancestry?

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

7. How did Lincoln's legal practice bring him into questions of statewide or national importance?

8. What part did Lincoln's private life play in the years after he returned to Springfield?

9. What was popular sovereignty and what role did it play in the politics of the 1850s.

10. Describe the beginnings of the Civil War.

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