With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Stephen B. Oates
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With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Lincoln's Republicans wanted him to pin Douglas down on what?
(a) All the contradictions he had made in his campaign.
(b) His tax evasion.
(c) His beliefs about slavery.
(d) His illegal actions.

4. In 1832, what was Lincoln's first venture into political platforms?
(a) He ran for Congress.
(b) He ran for town council.
(c) He ran for state legislature.
(d) He ran for the school board.

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

6. 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.

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

8. When did Lincoln's son, Eddie, die?
(a) March 1, 1850.
(b) April 1, 1850.
(c) February 1, 1850.
(d) May 1, 1850.

9. Lincoln became known as what because of his tough pioneer background and his legal work with the railroad?
(a) The railroad pioneer.
(b) The rail splitter.
(c) The railroad man.
(d) The Midwestern Davy Crockett.

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

11. He entered into a law practice with John Todd Stuart, and won his first court case. What type of case was this?
(a) Murder.
(b) Theft.
(c) Armed Robbery.
(d) Extortion.

12. Thomas Lincoln died on January 17, 1851. Did Lincoln attend the funeral?
(a) Yes.
(b) Yes, but only after everyone else had left.
(c) Yes, but only for a few moments.
(d) No.

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

14. Lincoln ran his Senatorial campaign against Douglas for what reason?
(a) For personal gain.
(b) For Mary.
(c) On principle.
(d) For his father.

15. In November Lincoln and Douglas had their first debate over what, starting a rivalry that would last years?
(a) The national debt.
(b) Female suffrage.
(c) State banks.
(d) Negro suffrage.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what case did Lincoln become famous?

2. Though Buchanan sent men to use patronage in Lincoln's favor, Lincoln was wary of accepting favors from anyone. Why?

3. Who won the Senate seat?

4. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was Stephen A. Douglas' idea of what?

5. Describe Nancy Hanks Lincoln.

(see the answer keys)

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