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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Militia Act designed to prevent?
(a) Dereliction of duty.
(b) Theft.
(c) Spies from crossing Union lines.
(d) Evasion of military duty.

2. What orders does President Lincoln give General Benjamin F. Butler and General-in-Chief Winfield Scott in Chapter 1?
(a) Watch, wait and be ready to respond.
(b) Free those in chains, chain those who fight.
(c) Arrest any who resist.
(d) Attack on sight.

3. What does Attorney General Edward Bates prepare for President Lincoln in Chapter 1?
(a) A list of Confederate supporters.
(b) A Jacksonian defense.
(c) A collection of international civil liberty laws.
(d) A list of Maryland lawmakers who may be arrested.

4. When is Abraham Lincoln inaugurated?
(a) March 4, 1861.
(b) November 2, 1864.
(c) January 20, 1862.
(d) May 1, 1860.

5. According to William Seward, which law is higher than the Constitution?
(a) International law.
(b) Federal law.
(c) Divine law.
(d) Mosaic law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Samuel E. Perkins?

2. Dennis A. Mahony is editor of which newspaper in Chapter 3?

3. Who are the Copperheads?

4. Why is Edmund J. Ellis banished from Missouri?

5. How are disloyal citizens tried in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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