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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Eleven: Moody, Tearful Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Lincoln refuse to make any compromises about slavery?
(a) He did not want slavery to exist in the Union.
(b) He did not want to buy his right to be peacefully inaugurated.
(c) He refused to make any compromises throughout his Presidency.
(d) He was afraid to upset the Southern and border states.

3. Lincoln and Mary secretly became engaged, and set November 4th as their wedding date. When did they tell her family?
(a) Two days before the wedding.
(b) On the morning of the wedding.
(c) The day after the wedding.
(d) A month after the wedding.

4. Lincoln was getting sicker as well, even holding a Cabinet meeting where?
(a) In a hotel room.
(b) In his bedroom.
(c) In his office.
(d) In the hospital.

5. Lincoln invited who to stay with them at the White House?
(a) Benjamin Hardin Helm and Emilie Helm.
(b) Emilie Helm and her three children.
(c) Robert Lincoln.
(d) Sally Lincoln and Abraham's siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reconstruction in Louisiana was _____________.

2. On Good Friday, April 14, the President was assassinated by whom at Ford's Theatre?

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

4. Originally was slavery going to be allowed in the West?

5. 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?

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