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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In January __________, a Lincoln campaign for Presidential candidacy was officially underway.
(a) 1857.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1858.
(d) 1859.

2. Lincoln was interested in patent cases and participated in the Supreme Court of Illinois, winning most of his _______ cases there.
(a) 432.
(b) 234.
(c) 423.
(d) 243.

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

4. On the way down the river to New Orleans, what happened to Lincoln and his friend's raft?
(a) It got stuck on a dock.
(b) It sank.
(c) It was destroyed by rebels.
(d) It got stuck across a dam in New Salem.

5. Why did Lincoln believe Douglas allied with Southern leaders?
(a) To help the leaders.
(b) To please the people.
(c) To protect the Union.
(d) To gain his own ends.

6. Was Lincoln with the free-soilers?
(a) Yes.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Only at first.
(d) No.

7. What school did Lincoln attend irregularly between ages 11 and 15, developing interests in reading, poetry, penmanship, and the early years of the American Republic?
(a) A boarding school.
(b) The "blab school."
(c) A private school.
(d) A parochial school.

8. What had been made practically obsolete by this bill?
(a) The Fugitive Law.
(b) The Illinois Bill.
(c) The Missouri Compromise.
(d) The Mississippi Compromise.

9. Lincoln reiterated in the debates that the slavery issue was between who?
(a) The North and the South.
(b) The people of the western territories.
(c) Lincoln and Douglas.
(d) The Union and the Declaration of Independence.

10. Kansas rejected the LeCompton Constitution, ensuring what?
(a) It could be a free state.
(b) It would be a slave state.
(c) It would eventually be a slave state.
(d) It would eventually be a free state.

11. When Lincoln moved to New Salem, for what did he become known?
(a) His quiet demeanor.
(b) His physical strength and honesty.
(c) His height and beard.
(d) His tall hat.

12. What was Abraham's first job?
(a) He was a banker.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a sexton at the Pigeon Creek Baptist Church.
(d) He was a store clerk.

13. Describe Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
(a) Withdrawn and melancholy.
(b) Immature and irresponsible.
(c) Stern and unemotional.
(d) Convivial and hard-working.

14. From what did Nancy Lincoln die?
(a) Milk sickness.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Influenza.

15. When was Lincoln born?
(a) February 12, 1809.
(b) February 12, 1806.
(c) February 12, 1808.
(d) February 12, 1807.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Lincoln not drink alcohol?

3. When the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was passed, it left the status of slavery up to who?

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

5. Lincoln focused on _____________ Illinois, because this part of the state would be the deciding factor.

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