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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Lincoln studying in the opening scene?
(a) The moods of a woman he would like to court.
(b) Punctuation marks.
(c) The plays of Shakespeare.
(d) The moods of the English language.

3. Why does Lincoln return to New Salem in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) The Greens have asked him to mediate in their divorce.
(b) Seth Gale summoned him with a letter.
(c) Ann Rutledge is sick.
(d) He has been kicked out of Springfiled for being drunk in public.

4. Where has Lincoln been, just before he arrives at the Edwards' home in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Fox hunting.
(b) Visiting a potential client in jail.
(c) At the Statehouse, lobbying against gun registration.
(d) Visiting another woman, to whom he plans to propose.

5. When Act 2, Scene 4 opens in Lincoln's Springfield law office, how much time has passed since the death of Ann Rutledge?
(a) Six months.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Thirteen years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lincoln blame for all the political strife in the country?

2. What does Lincoln see on the boat from Quincy to Alton that shocks him?

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

4. What are the two professions open to people who fail at everything else, according to Lincoln's teacher?

5. What does Lincoln do that impresses Ninian Edwards in Act 1, Scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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