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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. Who was "The Last, Best Hope of Earth" intended for?
(a) Congress.
(b) A family member.
(c) A friend.
(d) A newspaper journalist.

2. What offer did Lincoln reject in "Few Things are So Troublesome"?
(a) Trading iron.
(b) Trading prisoners.
(c) Trading corn.
(d) Trading cotton.

3. Why was Hooker relieved of duties shortly after "Lee's Army Is Your True Objective Point"?
(a) He refused to pursue Lee.
(b) He refused to stop and rest.
(c) He refused to use intelligence gathered by a woman.
(d) He refused to take Richmond.

4. What did "Questions I Reserve to Myself" foreshadow?
(a) Thanksgiving Proclamation.
(b) Proclamation for National Fast Day.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) Proclamation to Overrule the General's Emancipation.

5. Who does Lincoln congratulate in "You Were Right, and I Was Wrong"?
(a) General McClellan.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General Marshall.
(d) General Sherman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Lincoln at his lowest when he wrote "The Will of God Prevails"?

2. Who was "A Fair Specimen of What Has Occurred to Me Through Life" intended for?

3. How was Hooker's character according to "I Will Risk the Dictatorship"?

4. What did Carl Schurz blame Lincoln's administration for according to "I Do Not See That Their Superiority of Success has Been So Marked"?

5. What was "A Single Half-Defeat" about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What became a contentious issue of the Reconstruction era?

2. What does Lincoln address when he writes to General Hooker?

3. What did Lincoln declare in January 1863 according to "A New Birth in Freedom"?

4. Why did Lincoln write to Carl Schurz?

5. What should Hooker's chief aim be according to another letter to Hooker?

6. What was Lincoln convinced of in August 1864?

7. What does Lincoln claim in a response to a white man?

8. What did Lincoln issue in September 1862?

9. What words does the Gettysburg Address begin with?

10. What did Lincoln demonstrate in his letter to General Don Carlos Buell according to "We Cannot Escape History"?

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