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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 does Lincoln want in "I Expect to Maintain this Contest"?
(a) More support from government leaders.
(b) More troops.
(c) More supplies.
(d) More money.

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

3. What did Lincoln ask Sherman to do in "Go Far Towards Losing the Whole Union Cause"?
(a) Let his soldiers go home and vote.
(b) Pursue Lee's army.
(c) Stop and rest his army.
(d) Go back to Washington to meet him.

4. What did Lincoln refuse to do in "Will Be Received and Considered"?
(a) Increase war spending.
(b) Create another army.
(c) Abolish conscription.
(d) Negotiate with the South.

5. What was the war about according to "Equal Privileges in the Race of Life"?
(a) Lincoln's legacy.
(b) Abolishing slavery.
(c) Teaching the south a lesson.
(d) The prosperity of future generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did "Shall Be Thenceforth, and Forever Free" give to the Confederacy states to rejoin the Union?

2. What did Lincoln want African Americans to do after the war according to "The Ban is Still Upon You"?

3. What was the Wade-Davis bill about?

4. What compelled Lincoln to take the steps leading to war and the Emancipation Proclamation according to "If Slavery is Not Wrong, Nothing is Wrong"?

5. When was "The Last, Best Hope of Earth" written?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lincoln under increasing pressure to do by July 1864?

2. How does Lincoln respond to Illinois Congressman Isaac Arnold?

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

4. What did Lincoln do to spare the Douglas family?

5. What does Lincoln make the Union synonymous with in December 1862?

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

7. Why are elections necessary based on an address written on November 10, 1864?

8. What did Lincoln issue in September 1862?

9. What words does the Gettysburg Address begin with?

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

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