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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(b) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln.
(c) Elizabeth Lee Lincoln.
(d) Sarah Todd Lincoln.

2. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1833.

3. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?
(a) Agricultural rights.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) Curbing the spread of slavery.
(d) Universal health care.

4. When was "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2011.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2008.

5. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?
(a) 120.
(b) 522.
(c) 615.
(d) 435.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?

4. Who was the 14th President of the United States?

5. Where was Eric Foner born?

(see the answer key)

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