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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 skills attracted historians to Lincoln?
(a) His rhetoric skills.
(b) His penmanship.
(c) His military skills.
(d) His negotiating skills.

2. Who could not become a citizen of the United States according to the Dred Scott ruling?
(a) Texans.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) People born outside the United States.
(d) African Americans.

3. Why did Lincoln want troops to be raised in "To Suppress Said Combinations"?
(a) To assuage fears.
(b) To put down the Southern rebellion.
(c) To show strength.
(d) To attack plantations.

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

5. What did the Whigs support according to "Bow to It I Never Will"?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) A strong national bank.
(c) Trade with England.
(d) Small banks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lincoln say of secession in"The Union is Perpetual"?

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

3. Who did Lincoln offend in "A House Divided" according to "Construed So Differently from Any Thing Intended by Me"?

4. What did Lincoln belittle in "A Question of Interest"?

5. Why did Lincoln vote for Polk's military spending bills?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lincoln order?

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

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

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

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

6. What concerns did Lincoln have regarding the Maryland state legislature?

7. Who was Grace Bedell and what did she suggest to Lincoln?

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

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

10. What did Lincoln chastise General David Hunter for?

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