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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Eight: This Fiery Trial.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Lincoln born?
(a) In a log cabin in Illinois.
(b) In a log cabin in Missouri.
(c) In a log cabin in Kentucky.
(d) In a log cabin in Indiana.

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

3. Colonel Robert E. Lee was sent into the fray to put the rebellion down, and the incident was branded by Southerners as what?
(a) The start of the Civil War.
(b) Lincoln's doing.
(c) A Republican plot to overthrow the South.
(d) A huge mistake.

4. When the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was passed, it left the status of slavery up to who?
(a) The people who settled in the territory.
(b) The Governors.
(c) Congress.
(d) The President.

5. Who led the free-soilers?
(a) Talapia Churchill.
(b) Crab Charles.
(c) Tuna Chester.
(d) Salmon Chase.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were refuges for Lincoln?

2. Douglas adopted what strategy?

3. Why did Lincoln believe Douglas allied with Southern leaders?

4. To what did James Shields, a state auditor and a Democrat, challenge Lincoln?

5. Was Lincoln with the free-soilers?

(see the answer key)

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