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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wills says this about Lincoln, "He was a Transcendentalist without the ______."
(a) Nonsense
(b) Imagination
(c) Fuzziness
(d) Stamina

2. Daniel Webster was known as a great _______________.
(a) Physician
(b) Politician
(c) Orator
(d) Mathematician

3. To learn to write well, Lincoln studied Hugh Blair's work on what topic?
(a) Lyrical verse
(b) Great political speeches
(c) Non-fiction writing
(d) Rhetoric

4. Where did Everett teach?
(a) Brown
(b) Oxford
(c) Harvard
(d) Yale

5. Webster and his legal counsel believed that the secession of the Confederacy was _______________.
(a) Suicidal
(b) Illegal
(c) Ill advised
(d) Foolish

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike Lincoln's words, many speeches of the day were considered to be _________________.

2. At whom did Lincoln often poke fun?

3. Where is Gettysburg?

4. Who was the president of the Southern states?

5. Lincoln believed that if all men are created equal, they cannot be _____________.

(see the answer key)

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