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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 beginning to be known for after years of traveling the court circuit?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Caginess.

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

3. Who was Joshua Speed?
(a) Lincoln's business partner.
(b) Lincoln's father-in-law.
(c) A shopkeeper and Lincoln's roommate.
(d) Lincoln's running partner.

4. Describe Lincoln's relationship with his stepmother.
(a) Harmonious.
(b) Contentious.
(c) Distrustful.
(d) Invidious.

5. Who was Stephen Douglas?
(a) A Democrat from Washington, DC.
(b) A Whig from Lincoln's county.
(c) A Democrat from Illinois.
(d) A Whig from New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the Whig party divided against itself?

2. When was Lincoln married?

3. What did Lincoln work on after the 1858 election?

4. What position did Stephen Douglas hold when Lincoln returned to politics?

5. Describe Lincoln's relationship with his ancestry.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lincoln's relationship with his stepmother like?

2. What did Lincoln do after he lost to Douglas?

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

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

5. What was Lincoln's relationship with the image his supporters presented of him?

6. Describe the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

7. Compare and contrast Lincoln's relationship with his wife and his relationship with his partner, William Herndon.

8. Describe Lincoln's temperament as a politician.

9. How did Lincoln finally get married?

10. What issue was returned Lincoln to politics?

(see the answer keys)

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