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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. Half Slave and Half Free.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of education did Lincoln mostly rely on according to the "Preface"?
(a) Self education.
(b) High school.
(c) Some college.
(d) Post graduate studies.

2. What did Lincoln belittle in "A Question of Interest"?
(a) A Southern slave owner.
(b) A political opponent.
(c) Emancipation proposition.
(d) Pro-slavery positions.

3. When was "I Shall Be Governed By Their Will" written?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1835.

4. Who did Lincoln offend in "A House Divided" according to "Construed So Differently from Any Thing Intended by Me"?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Southern plantation owners.
(c) Southern States.
(d) Democrats.

5. What were Kansas and Nebraska established as?
(a) Border states.
(b) Confederate states.
(c) Free states.
(d) Slave states.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lincoln vote for Polk's military spending bills?

2. When was Lincoln politically adrift in "Where I Now Stand"?

3. Who did Lincoln face in the senatorial election according to "A House Divided"?

4. What does Lincoln not believe in according to "The Social and Political Equality of the Races"?

5. At what age did Lincoln stop working on the family farm?

(see the answer key)

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