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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Eric Foner born?
(a) Akron, OH.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) Little Rock, AR.
(d) Chicago, IL.

2. Who was the 12th President of the United States?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?
(a) His architecture firm.
(b) His farm.
(c) His medical practice.
(d) His law practice.

4. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Free Soil Party.

5. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?
(a) He worshipped him.
(b) He was inspired by him.
(c) He resented him.
(d) He envied him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1840s, Lincoln helped represent a slave owner whose slave and four children claimed to be free when the owner transported them from where into Illinois?

2. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?

3. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?

4. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

5. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?

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