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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: On The Pilgrimage Road.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Lincoln feel without Mary?
(a) Content.
(b) Worried.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Depressed.

2. Lincoln and Mary resolved to be friends, and even wrote what together?
(a) Novels.
(b) Political articles.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Political satire.

3. What had been made practically obsolete by this bill?
(a) The Illinois Bill.
(b) The Mississippi Compromise.
(c) The Fugitive Law.
(d) The Missouri Compromise.

4. What school did Lincoln attend irregularly between ages 11 and 15, developing interests in reading, poetry, penmanship, and the early years of the American Republic?
(a) A parochial school.
(b) The "blab school."
(c) A boarding school.
(d) A private school.

5. What did this bill state?
(a) Slavery would be banned in the northern states.
(b) Slavery should be legal in the territories.
(c) Slavery should be legal in all states.
(d) Slavery would be illegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Thomas Lincoln.

2. Lincoln took a break from politics to focus on what?

3. Lincoln's rivals were Stephen A. Douglas, known as ____________, and the young Democrats.

4. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?

5. On what topic did Lincoln agree with Henry Clay?

(see the answer key)

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