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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. Lincoln left by train to go to Washington, making stops along the way for speeches and appearances, including a stop in New York to meet who?
(a) A little boy who had written him a letter.
(b) The young girl who suggested he grow a beard.
(c) Soldiers from Illinois.
(d) Family members.

2. Lincoln _________ capable generals to lead his armies against the Southern insurrection.
(a) Had only two.
(b) Lacked.
(c) Had many.
(d) Had a few.

3. Lincoln wanted to be elected for a second term, though he had a strange feeling. What was this feeling?
(a) He would not live to see the end of the war.
(b) He would become ill.
(c) He would not be elected.
(d) He would not be a good President.

4. Lincoln preached what?
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Imperialism.
(c) Impassioned demonstrations rather than reason and calculated solutions.
(d) Reason and calculated solutions rather than impassioned demonstrations.

5. The Republicans held a convention with Lincoln as the keynote speaker, and he gave an hour-and-a-half long impromptu speech. As what is this speech known?
(a) The Last Speech.
(b) The Worst Speech.
(c) The Lost Speech.
(d) The Best Speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. George Gordon Meade continued with the Army of the Potomac on a collision course with Lee where?

2. Why did Lincoln not drink alcohol?

3. The Confederates sent an army into the state, which enraged _________________ and pushed them into the Union.

4. After a month of preparation, the Grand Army met the rebels where, though the Grand Army was ill-trained and the Union suffered a humiliating defeat?

5. Why did Thomas Lincoln go back to Kentucky to bring home a new wife, Sarah Bush Johnston, or "Sally?"

(see the answer key)

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