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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. 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 was pro-war.
(d) He felt it would give me political gain.

2. When was Lincoln politically adrift in "Where I Now Stand"?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1856.

3. What does Lincoln tell Senator Lyman Trumbull in "The Taste is in My Mouth"?
(a) That he should give up his seat at the convention.
(b) That he should put his name on the ballot.
(c) That he should help him financially.
(d) That he should support his nomination.

4. When did Lincoln break his engagement to Mary Todd according to "The Most Miserable Man Living"?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1834.

5. What is the most important characteristic of the ideal lawyer according to "Resolve to Be Honest"?
(a) Rhetoric skills.
(b) Courage.
(c) Diligence.
(d) Timeliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "A Moral, a Social, and a Political Wrong" written?

2. What was Lincoln not comfortable with according to the editor?

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

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

5. What was Lincoln slow to recognize the true gravity of in "There is No Cause for Such Fears"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Lincoln state about his belief in racial equality?

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

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

7. What did Lincoln want John Fremont to modify?

8. What was Lincoln slow to recognize?

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

10. What did Lincoln stress in his inaugural address?

(see the answer keys)

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