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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. 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 Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(c) The Missouri Compromise.
(d) The Dred Scott Decision.

2. Who did Lincoln think about after Willie's death?
(a) Mary.
(b) God.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

3. During his candidacy, Lincoln was encouraged to write an autobiography for what reason?
(a) So Americans would vote for him.
(b) So the voters could learn more about him.
(c) So he could become famous.
(d) So others would like him.

4. What political party was gaining favor from abolitionists in the North?
(a) Know-Nothings.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Whigs.

5. Who were refuges for Lincoln?
(a) His wife and son, Robert.
(b) Lincoln's cabinet members.
(c) Lincoln's boys Willie and Tad.
(d) His close friends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Democrats call Lincoln?

3. Lincoln called for troops from the Union, and there was a riot in ___________ when the Sixth Massachusetts tried to march through.

4. Lincoln's Republicans wanted him to pin Douglas down on what?

5. Lincoln declared that the ________________ no longer applied, which caused flocks of slaves to run to the Union border, claiming themselves for the Union as "contraband of war."

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