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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. How many troops did Lincoln order to Fort Sumter in "To Suppress Said Combinations"?
(a) 250000.
(b) 25000.
(c) 125000.
(d) 75,000.

2. What does Lincoln rail against in "It is the End of Us"?
(a) Southern cooking.
(b) Southern troops.
(c) Southern religious ideals.
(d) Southern extortion attempts.

3. What is the topic of "Founded on Both Injustice and Bad Policy"?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Constituional amendments.
(d) Military power over the civilians.

4. What was still an unpopular stance at the time Lincoln wrote "Where I Now Stand"?
(a) Being a Democrat.
(b) Being an abolitionist.
(c) Being pro-slavery.
(d) Being Republican.

5. What did Lincoln profess was needed to maintain America's political institutions?
(a) Will power.
(b) Desire for expansion.
(c) Restraint and self control.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What line of the Declaration did Lincoln cite in"All the Powers of Earth Seem Rapidly Combining Against Him"?

2. What did Lincoln consider the Civil War to be a test of according to "A People's Contest"?

3. What charge did Lincoln answer to in "I am Not a Member of Any Church" ?

4. What did Lincoln refuse to do according to "It is the End of Us"?

5. Who was "For a Vast Future Also" intended for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Lincoln want John Fremont to modify?

3. What did Lincoln stress in his inaugural address?

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

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

6. What does Lincoln state about a house?

7. What does Lincoln express frustration with in regards to Henry Clay?

8. Why did Lincoln criticize James K. Polk?

9. What did Lincoln chastise General David Hunter for?

10. How does Lincoln portray himself in his last speech prior to the 1858 election?

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