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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what did James Shields, a state auditor and a Democrat, challenge Lincoln?
(a) A duel.
(b) A race.
(c) A debate.
(d) A game of chess.

2. Who was Lincoln's idol?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) William Henry Harrison.
(c) Benjamin Harrison.
(d) Clay Aiken.

3. What event perpetuated Lincoln's fatalistic beliefs and preoccupation with death?
(a) Lincoln's father's death in 1828.
(b) The death of Sally in 1828 in childbirth.
(c) Lincoln's sister, Sarah, died in 1828 in childbirth.
(d) The death of Lincoln's wife in 1828.

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

5. When did the Lincolns move to central Illinois?
(a) March 1828.
(b) March 1829.
(c) March 1831.
(d) March 1830.

6. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?
(a) The Missouri Bill.
(b) The Kansas Bill.
(c) The Nebraska Bill.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

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

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

9. Sixteen-year-old Abraham grew estranged from his farmer father. Why?
(a) His father wanted him to be educated.
(b) His father was cruel and unfeeling.
(c) His father did not understand his son's desire for education.
(d) His father did not understand his son's desire to be President.

10. Lincoln read newspapers voraciously, and was concerned about what?
(a) Large company monopolies.
(b) Equality between men and women.
(c) The contrast in socio-economic levels.
(d) Race riots between white men and abolitionists.

11. Where had a civil war begun?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Missouri.

12. Lincoln focused on _____________ Illinois, because this part of the state would be the deciding factor.
(a) Southern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Central.

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

14. Lincoln was intimidated by Mary's _______________.
(a) Strong personality.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Family lineage.

15. 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 Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(d) The Dred Scott Decision.

Short Answer Questions

1. In October 1839 the Whigs held a convention and endorsed who for President, beginning the so-called Log and Cabin Campaign?

2. Describe Nancy Hanks Lincoln.

3. How did Douglas treat Lincoln at this debate?

4. What were Douglas' ideas causing in the Democratic party?

5. Was Lincoln advocating war?

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