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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were refuges for Lincoln?
(a) His close friends.
(b) His wife and son, Robert.
(c) Lincoln's boys Willie and Tad.
(d) Lincoln's cabinet members.

2. McClellan still refused to attack the rebels head-on. Why?
(a) He wanted to be a Confederate leader.
(b) He did not believe he should attack.
(c) He feared he was outgunned and outnumbered.
(d) He did not trust Lincoln.

3. Robert, Lincoln's oldest son, wanted to do what, but Mary said no?
(a) Join the Confederacy.
(b) Move out of the country.
(c) Enlist in the army.
(d) Get married.

4. ____________ stayed in the Union.
(a) Kentucky and Illinois.
(b) West Vriginia and Illinois.
(c) Maryland and Missouri.
(d) Massachusetts, and Maryland.

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

6. What accusations surrounded Mary?
(a) That she was secretly a Southern sympathizer.
(b) That she was in love with another man.
(c) That she was not American.
(d) That she was spoiled and unkind.

7. How was Meade like his predecessors?
(a) He was ill-prepared.
(b) He did not pursue Lee's army to an unconditional surrender, but allowed them to escape.
(c) He was not very intelligent.
(d) He was fearful.

8. In Lincoln's inauguration speech, he promised first and foremost to do what?
(a) Uphold the Union.
(b) Be honest.
(c) Free the slaves.
(d) Bring equality to all men and women.

9. Because of ____________, most Democrats were now against Lincoln.
(a) The Union's success.
(b) The draft.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The war.

10. What plot was uncovered in Baltimore?
(a) To rob the President-elect.
(b) To bribe the President-elect.
(c) To assassinate the President-elect.
(d) To kidnap the President-elect.

11. Lincoln had to relieve General Burnside because of what?
(a) Burnside became very ill.
(b) The public did not like Burnside.
(c) Burnside was a secret southern sympathizer.
(d) A disastrous campaign at Fredericksburg.

12. The public was clamoring for a battle to take place, so Lincoln called Generals Scott and McDowell to discuss what?
(a) Summer offensives.
(b) Spring offensives.
(c) Winter offensives.
(d) Fall offensives.

13. Lincoln demoted McClellan and had who take over the Commander in Chief job?
(a) Albert S. Johnston.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Joseph G. Totten.
(d) Sylvester Churchill.

14. General Winfield Scott was _________ to take the field.
(a) Too old.
(b) Too unsure of himself.
(c) Too novice.
(d) Too young.

15. The Confederates sent an army into the state, which enraged _________________ and pushed them into the Union.
(a) Missourians.
(b) Kentuckians.
(c) West Virginians.
(d) Marylanders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Lincoln think about after Willie's death?

2. ______________ declared itself "neutral" in the conflict, with people enlisting in both armies.

3. Grant was a small man who graduated from where?

4. McClellan's _____________ was a huge problem.

5. Lincoln finally had to take matters into his own hands and do what?

(see the answer keys)

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