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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) A family member.
(b) A newspaper journalist.
(c) A friend.
(d) Congress.

2. What did Lincoln call radicals in "The Jewel of Liberty"?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Giving African Americans equal rights.
(c) Incoporating African Americans in the regular army.
(d) Giving former slaves in North Carolina reparation.

3. What did Lincoln point to as the reason for the war continuing in "The Curses of Heaven"?
(a) Jefferson Davis' unwillingness to rejoin the Union.
(b) War was good for business.
(c) The war bonds kept the south well stocked.
(d) The south was giving conditions for surrender.

4. What policy did Lincoln ask congress to help with in "Gradual Emancipation is Better for All"?
(a) Gradual emancipation and full suffrage.
(b) Gradual emancipation.
(c) Gradual arrests of disloyal residents and gradual emancipation.
(d) Gradual suffrage.

5. What was "I Can Not Consent to Suspend the Draft" a response to?
(a) Riots in Washington.
(b) Riots in Portland.
(c) Riots in New York.
(d) Riots in Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lincoln's number one priority in the war according to "I Would Save the Union"?

2. What did Lincoln tell Hooker not to do in "There is No Eligible Route for Us into Richmond"?

3. What idea did Lincoln stress in "The Jewel of Liberty" ?

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

5. What military objective did Lincoln remind the recipient of "I Am Not Watching You with an Evil-Eye" was vital to the war effort?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Lincoln point out in a December 1863 address according to "Events Have Controlled Me"?

3. What did Lincoln pocket veto?

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

5. What was Lincoln convinced of in August 1864?

6. What trade did Lincoln reject?

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

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

9. What does Lincoln stress about the war to a group of soldiers?

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

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