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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lincoln define his "own great duty?"
(a) He needs to go West and seize California from the Mexican government.
(b) He doesn't know what it is and he's tired of people nagging him about it.
(c) His duty is to mind his own business and he doesn't care what other people think.
(d) His duty is to defend the Constitution to the best of his understanding.

2. The influential men visiting Lincoln ask about his views on which two topics?
(a) Workers rights and religious faith.
(b) Taxes and slavery.
(c) Slavery and bank regulation.
(d) Religion and interstate commerce.

3. At the beginning of Act 3, Scene 10, Lincoln is sitting in his parlor with his sons. How many did he have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

4. What is the local gossip in New Salem about Ann Rutledge?
(a) She has been jilted by her fiance, who left town.
(b) She is in love with Abe Lincoln.
(c) She is secretly a witch.
(d) She is in line for a job as the town's teacher.

5. In Scene 2, Act 4, Lincoln receives a letter from his old friend, Seth Gale. What is Gale worrying about?
(a) The possible annexation of Texas, which would result in the extension of slavery through all the territories.
(b) Gale's property taxes are going sky-high to pay for liberation of the slaves.
(c) His wife's increasingly bizarre behavior.
(d) The prospect of his father's death and the debts he will inherit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the first scene of Abe Lincoln in Illinois?

2. What piece of advice does Ninian Andrews give Lincoln concerning Mary Todd in Act 2, Scene 6?

3. When Lincoln suggests he wants to die in Act 1, Scene 3, how do his friends respond?

4. What do Josh Speed and Bowling Green think might be the result, if slavery spreads further across the South?

5. What is it about the Gale family's plans that seems most important to Lincoln?

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