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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. Lincoln was the only lawyer who did what?
(a) Rode the entire court circuit for both sessions.
(b) Got involved in politics.
(c) Became President.
(d) Owned his own law firm.

2. Why did Lincoln write to Mary Owens to release her from their engagement?
(a) He was poor, did not feel he could provide for her, and did not think she would want to live in poverty while he tried to make something of himself.
(b) He knew she did not want to marry him.
(c) He no longer loved her.
(d) He no longer wanted to get married.

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

4. Lincoln preached what?
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Imperialism.
(c) Reason and calculated solutions rather than impassioned demonstrations.
(d) Impassioned demonstrations rather than reason and calculated solutions.

5. When did the Lincolns move to central Illinois?
(a) March 1828.
(b) March 1830.
(c) March 1831.
(d) March 1829.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Lincoln died on January 17, 1851. Did Lincoln attend the funeral?

2. What did neighbors think about the Lincoln children?

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

4. How did Robert Lincoln feel when his father was away on political trips?

5. Describe Robert Todd.

(see the answer key)

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