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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. What was Lincoln not comfortable with according to the editor?
(a) Writing letters.
(b) Talking to constituents.
(c) Talking in public.
(d) Expressing personal feelings.

2. 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.

3. When did Mary Todd and Lincoln reconcile?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1835.

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

5. What did Lincoln stress in "The Union is Perpetual"?
(a) That the Union must stay together.
(b) That the north was free of sin.
(c) That the north would not pay for the crimes of the south.
(d) That the north had remained silent long enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Whigs support according to "Bow to It I Never Will"?

2. What was the worry according to "The Most Prompt, and Efficient Means"?

3. Who was "The Most Prompt, and Efficient Means" intended for?

4. Who criticized Lincoln's handling of Fremont according to "I Cannot Assume the Reckless Position"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lincoln want John Fremont to modify?

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

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

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

5. What did the South do after Lincoln's election in "The Perpetuity of Popular Government"?

6. What kind of existence did Lincoln's family lead?

7. How did Lincoln hone his argument by the sixth debate in Illinois in 1858?

8. When was Lincoln unusually emotional?

9. What did a political opponent charge Lincoln with in 1846?

10. What did Lincoln confess to Senator Lyman Trumbull?

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