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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the five indicative moods, as Lincoln knows them?
(a) Meditative, Imperial, Possible, Subjective and Infinite.
(b) Indicative, Imperative, Potential, Subjunctive and Infinitive.
(c) Commanding, Questioning, Doubting, Inferior and Decisive.
(d) Sad, Glad, Mad, Grumpy and Giddy.

2. Why can't Lincoln bring himself to shoot a deer?
(a) Because his mother was an anti-gun lobbyist.
(b) Because of the scene in "Bambi," in which his mother was killed.
(c) Because he prefers bow-hunting.
(d) Because he once saw one running across his mother's grave.

3. Who wrote the poem that Lincoln's teacher gives him to read?
(a) John Singer Sargeant.
(b) John Lennon.
(c) John Keats.
(d) John Brown.

4. In a poem that Lincoln reads in the first scene, what is it that the poet finds strange about people?
(a) They look forward to death, even when life is good.
(b) They dance through life unaware of pleasure.
(c) They think of death as an awakening.
(d) They are afraid to face death alone.

5. What subject is always heavy on Lincoln's mind?
(a) That he'll never have a chance to run for public office.
(b) That his partner will buy the store where Abe works and fire him.
(c) That if he ever gets out of debt, he'll get right back in again.
(d) That he will fail at the job of postmaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lincoln feel after Ann's death?

2. What is the weather, as the Greens sit in their parlor, waiting for Abe to return from Ann Rutledge's home?

3. In a poem given to Lincoln by his teacher in the first scene, life is compared to what?

4. What is the mood of the speech Lincoln is asked to read in the first scene?

5. Who is Ann Rutledge?

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