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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 charges was "Blowing Out the Moral Lights Around Us" a response to?
(a) Lincoln being pro-slavery.
(b) Lincoln being an abolitionist.
(c) Lincoln being a pacifist.
(d) Lincoln being a politician.

2. What would doom African American slaves according to "Public Sentiment"?
(a) The public thinking it was in the hands of the states.
(b) The public thinking it was a financial issue.
(c) The public thinking it was in the hands of Lincoln.
(d) The public thinking that slavery it was not a moral issue.

3. When did Polk start a war with Mexico according to "No One Man Should Hold the Power"?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1852.

4. When did Lincoln break his engagement to Mary Todd according to "The Most Miserable Man Living"?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1834.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1843.

5. Why did Lincoln vote for Polk's military spending bills?
(a) He was pro-war.
(b) He felt it would give me political gain.
(c) He did not want to endanger the troops.
(d) His district was pro-war.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Kansas-Nebraska act signed according to "Our Republican Robe is Soiled"?

2. When was "Founded on Both Injustice and Bad Policy" written?

3. What does Lincoln tell Senator Lyman Trumbull in "The Taste is in My Mouth"?

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

5. When was Lincoln elected in the state legislature according to "I Shall Be Governed By Their Will"?

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