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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 41 – 63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who insisted that Binlay was the finest house in Washington?
(a) Mrs. Delaney.
(b) Elise Traynor.
(c) Mr. Coombs.
(d) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.

2. How many children does Mrs. Abigail Blass say she had with her husband?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

3. To where does Mrs. Abigail Blass say she traveled repeatedly with her husband to visit his mother in Chapter 27?
(a) London.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) Fairfax.
(d) New York.

4. Who wrote Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House?
(a) Elizabeth Keckley.
(b) Rose Milland.
(c) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(d) Ben Wade.

5. Who is the fictional author attributed as having written “The Great War, as Described by Its Warriors"?
(a) Elson Farwell.
(b) Jo Brunt.
(c) Marshall Turnbull.
(d) Margaret Garrett.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Willie Lincoln when he died?

2. Who is the Prussian nobleman that attended the Lincolns' state dinner, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

3. Who is attributed as the writer of All This Did I See: Memories of a Terrible Time in Chapter 2?

4. Who wrote to President Lincoln regarding his first reception, asking if the President were aware there was a Civil War going on?

5. What is the narrator's relationship to the person he is addressing in Chapter 41?

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