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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VII. To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grace Bedell suggest Lincoln should do in the letter Lincoln answer to with "A Piece of Silly Affection" ?
(a) Grow a beard.
(b) Eat more food.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Meet her mother.

2. What amendment abolished slavery according to "A King's Cure for All the Evils"?
(a) The 11th.
(b) The 14th.
(c) The 13th.
(d) The 12th.

3. Who did Lincoln write "A Single Half-Defeat" for?
(a) An Illinois reporter.
(b) A friend.
(c) A politician.
(d) French author.

4. When was the Emancipation Proclamation published according to "Are, and Henceforth Shall Be Free"?
(a) April 1963.
(b) March 1963.
(c) January 1963.
(d) February 1963.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Lincoln think of black and white interaction according to "The Social and Political Equality of the Races"?

3. What was Lincoln little patience with according to "Grumbling Despatches and Letters"?

4. What military stalemate did Lincoln address in "An Idea I Have Been Trying to Repudiate for Quite a Year" ?

5. Who was in command of the Union armies in April of 1864?

(see the answer key)

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