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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VI. Events Have Controlled Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "Can We Not Come Together, for the Future" written?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1856.

2. Who did Lincoln criticize in "If We Never Try, We Shall Never Succeed"?
(a) McClellan.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Hooker.
(d) Grant.

3. When was the Dred Scott case judged by the Supreme Court according to "All the Powers of Earth Seem Rapidly Combining Against Him"?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1859.

4. What did Lincoln think of black and white interaction according to "The Social and Political Equality of the Races"?
(a) Blacks should be paid for their labor.
(b) Blacks should be shipped back to Africa.
(c) Blacks should be left alone and segregated.
(d) Blacks should be integrated into society.

5. What compelled Lincoln to take the steps leading to war and the Emancipation Proclamation according to "If Slavery is Not Wrong, Nothing is Wrong"?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) The view most popular according to a recent survey.
(c) The view that he thought would have him reelected.
(d) His personal view.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would employ the strategy Lincoln described in "Making Our Advantage an Over-match for His" in 1864?

2. What did Carl Schurz blame Lincoln's administration for according to "I Do Not See That Their Superiority of Success has Been So Marked"?

3. When was the Wade-Davis bill passed according to "Unprepared to Be Inflexibly Committed to Any Single Plan"?

4. What did Lincoln see as advantageous when writing "I Accept the Nomination"?

5. What theory is Lincoln supporting in "Opens the Way for All"?

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