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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lincoln was the only lawyer who did what?
(a) Became President.
(b) Owned his own law firm.
(c) Rode the entire court circuit for both sessions.
(d) Got involved in politics.

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

3. Where was Lincoln born?
(a) In a log cabin in Indiana.
(b) In a log cabin in Illinois.
(c) In a log cabin in Missouri.
(d) In a log cabin in Kentucky.

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

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

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

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

8. Why did Lincoln not drink alcohol?
(a) He did not like the taste of it.
(b) He was very religious.
(c) He could not afford it.
(d) It threatened his self-control.

9. Lincoln wanted to run for a senate seat, but he could not. Why not?
(a) No one wanted to vote for him.
(b) He was very ill.
(c) He was already a member of the senate.
(d) He was a member of the legislature.

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

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

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

13. What did Democrats call Lincoln?
(a) An insane man.
(b) A great leader.
(c) A Know-Nothing.
(d) A warmonger and an abolitionist.

14. Lincoln's rivals were Stephen A. Douglas, known as ____________, and the young Democrats.
(a) The Little Giant.
(b) Jack and the Giant.
(c) The Jolly Green Giant.
(d) The Mean Giant.

15. Originally was slavery going to be allowed in the West?
(a) Yes.
(b) Possibly.
(c) Someday.
(d) No.

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. How did many free-soilers feel about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?

3. What had been made practically obsolete by this bill?

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

5. What two boys were born to the Lincolns?

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