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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. The Presidential campaign of 1856 elected who?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Buchanan.
(d) Douglass.

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

3. After inauguration, the President passed what, declaring the Declaration a white man's document, and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in any of the territories?
(a) The Missouri Compromise.
(b) The Dred Scott Decision.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

4. Insecurities with whom would plague him for many years?
(a) His stepmother.
(b) Women.
(c) His father.
(d) Other politicians.

5. Their first debate was in what town?
(a) Ottawa.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Peoria.
(d) Springfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what case did Lincoln become famous?

2. Who was Lincoln's idol?

3. The bill sparked what debates?

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

5. Lincoln preached what?

(see the answer key)

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