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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IV. We Cannot Escape History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What policy did Lincoln ask congress to help with in "Gradual Emancipation is Better for All"?
(a) Gradual arrests of disloyal residents and gradual emancipation.
(b) Gradual suffrage.
(c) Gradual emancipation.
(d) Gradual emancipation and full suffrage.

2. What is the topic of "Founded on Both Injustice and Bad Policy"?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Constituional amendments.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Military power over the civilians.

3. What did "Questions I Reserve to Myself" foreshadow?
(a) Proclamation to Overrule the General's Emancipation.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Proclamation for National Fast Day.
(d) Thanksgiving Proclamation.

4. Who was "More Painful Than Pleasant" intended for?
(a) Lincoln's step-brother.
(b) Lincoln's sister.
(c) Lincoln's mother.
(d) Lincoln's father.

5. What does Lincoln want in "I Expect to Maintain this Contest"?
(a) More troops.
(b) More money.
(c) More supplies.
(d) More support from government leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the sketch in the "Prologue" written?

2. Who was the United States threatened by according to "Cold, Calculating, Unimpassioned Reason"?

3. What were the southern states doing at the time of "The Tug Has to Come"?

4. What financial advice did Lincoln give to lawyers in "Resolve to Be Honest"?

5. When was the Dred Scott case judged by the Supreme Court according to "All the Powers of Earth Seem Rapidly Combining Against Him"?

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