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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Years of Meteors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In January __________, a Lincoln campaign for Presidential candidacy was officially underway.
(a) 1857.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1858.

2. From what did Nancy Lincoln die?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Milk sickness.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

3. How did many free-soilers feel about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?
(a) Outraged.
(b) Happy.
(c) Worried.
(d) Excited.

4. Who won the Senate seat?
(a) Neither Douglas nor Lincoln.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Both Douglas and Lincoln.
(d) Douglas.

5. Lincoln read voraciously and taught himself mathematics, but his real interest was in what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Art.
(c) Languages.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what case did Lincoln become famous?

2. When did the Lincolns move to central Illinois?

3. Lincoln wanted to run for a senate seat, but he could not. Why not?

4. What did Democrats call Lincoln?

5. He entered into a law practice with John Todd Stuart, and won his first court case. What type of case was this?

(see the answer key)

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