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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was "I Am Distressed Immeasurably" intended for?
(a) General Sherman.
(b) General McClellan.
(c) General Grant.
(d) General Meade.

2. When was "The World Has Never Had a Good Definition of Liberty" written?
(a) April 1864.
(b) January1864.
(c) March 1864.
(d) May 1864.

3. When did Lincoln suspend the right of Habeas Corpus according to "The Writ of Habeas Corpus is Suspended" ?
(a) Two days before the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) Two weeks before the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Two weeks after the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) Two days after the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

4. Who was "But You Must Act" intended for?
(a) General McCall.
(b) General McCook.
(c) General McArthur.
(d) General McClellan.

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

6. What was the war about according to "Equal Privileges in the Race of Life"?
(a) Teaching the south a lesson.
(b) Abolishing slavery.
(c) The prosperity of future generations.
(d) Lincoln's legacy.

7. Who was "A Fair Specimen of What Has Occurred to Me Through Life" intended for?
(a) A political ally.
(b) A soldier.
(c) An actor.
(d) A housewife.

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

9. When was the Wade-Davis bill passed according to "Unprepared to Be Inflexibly Committed to Any Single Plan"?
(a) July 1864.
(b) June 1864.
(c) May 1864.
(d) August 1864.

10. What was the Wade-Davis bill about?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) Exceptions in the Emencipation Proclamation.
(c) Forgiveness for war profiteers.
(d) War fonding.

11. When was "The New Reckoning" written?
(a) December 1865.
(b) December 1862.
(c) December 1863.
(d) December 1864.

12. Who does Lincoln congratulate in "You Were Right, and I Was Wrong"?
(a) General Marshall.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General Sherman.
(d) General McClellan.

13. What did Lincoln support in "It Works Doubly"?
(a) The use of black soldiers.
(b) The use of defecting Confederate soldiers.
(c) The use of Native American soldiers.
(d) The use of Irish soldiers.

14. What idea did Lincoln stress in "The Jewel of Liberty" ?
(a) Limited black suffrage for the state of Florida..
(b) Limited black suffrage for the state of Louisiana.
(c) Limited black suffrage for the state of Noth Carolina.
(d) Limited black suffrage for the state of New York.

15. Who was "The Last, Best Hope of Earth" intended for?
(a) A newspaper journalist.
(b) A friend.
(c) Congress.
(d) A family member.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lincoln send "Quarrel Not at All" to the brother in law of Stephen Douglas?

2. What did Lincoln want African Americans to do after the war according to "The Ban is Still Upon You"?

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

4. What state did Lincoln praise for abolishing slavery?

5. Why was Lincoln at his lowest when he wrote "The Will of God Prevails"?

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