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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 theory is Lincoln supporting in "Opens the Way for All"?
(a) The value theory.
(b) The free labor theory.
(c) The theory of appropriation.
(d) The mudsill theory.

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

3. What was Lincoln little patience with according to "Grumbling Despatches and Letters"?
(a) Squabbling mayors.
(b) Squabbling generals.
(c) Squabbling prisoners of the Confederacy.
(d) Squabbling politicians.

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

5. What would doom African American slaves according to "Public Sentiment"?
(a) The public thinking it was in the hands of Lincoln.
(b) The public thinking it was in the hands of the states.
(c) The public thinking it was a financial issue.
(d) The public thinking that slavery it was not a moral issue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mary Todd and Lincoln reconcile?

2. What does Lincoln tell Senator Lyman Trumbull in "The Taste is in My Mouth"?

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

4. Who could not become a citizen of the United States according to the Dred Scott ruling?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What effect did Lincoln's speech in February 1860 have?

3. What does the autobiographical sketch of Lincoln provide based on the "Prologue"?

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

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

6. Why did Lincoln criticize James K. Polk?

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

8. What did Lincoln stress in his inaugural address?

9. What did Lincoln order?

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

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