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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Lincoln born?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1812.

2. When was the Dred Scott case judged by the Supreme Court according to "All the Powers of Earth Seem Rapidly Combining Against Him"?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1857.

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

4. At what age did Lincoln stop working on the family farm?
(a) 23.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

5. What was "The Eternal Struggle Between Right and Wrong" written for?
(a) Lincoln's fifth debate with Douglas.
(b) Lincoln's seventh debate with Douglas.
(c) Lincoln's's first debate with Douglas.
(d) Lincoln second debate with Douglas.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "The Tug Has to Come" written?

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

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

4. When was "I Shall Be Governed By Their Will" written?

5. What were Kansas and Nebraska established as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lincoln slow to recognize?

2. What will tear the Union asunder according to Lincoln's address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield?

3. What did Lincoln order?

4. What did Lincoln write in 1832 according to '"Peculiar Ambition"?

5. What is the legitimate object of government according to Lincoln in "Half Slave and Half Free"?

6. What does Lincoln contrast the "mud-sill" theory with?

7. When was Lincoln unusually emotional?

8. What has attracted historians to Abraham Lincoln according to the "Preface"?

9. What act was drawn in 1854 that brought Lincoln out of a five year political retirement?

10. What policies does Lincoln advocate in his letter to the editor of the Sangamo Journal in 1836?

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