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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the Prussian nobleman that attended the Lincolns' state dinner, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Prince Xavier William Minx.
(b) Prince Andrew II.
(c) Prince Felix Salm-Salm.
(d) Prince Everly Thomas.

3. Who is the fictional author of Reckoning: An Insider’s Memories of Difficult Times?
(a) Maxwell Flagg.
(b) Tyron Philian.
(c) James Morgan.
(d) Jo Brunt.

4. Who is the fictional writer accredited with writing Lincoln: A Story for Boys in Chapter 8?
(a) Maxwell Flagg.
(b) Jo Brunt.
(c) Rose Milland.
(d) James Morgan.

5. What literary work is attributed to Ruth Painter Randall in the book?
(a) Twenty Days.
(b) Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House.
(c) Our Capital in Time of War.
(d) Lincoln’s Sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe having happened to him on the day he and his wife plan to consummate their marriage in Chapter 1?

2. Who is the wealthy man with several properties that Roger and Hans encounter in Chapter 38?

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

4. How much money does Mrs. Abigail Blass supposedly have in the First Bank?

5. Who is the reverend that joins the others in the bardo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Mr. Bevins and Mr. Vollman set out seeking Abraham Lincoln in Chapter 36?

2. Why does Willie refuse to pass on from the bardo for much of the novel?

3. What does Abraham Lincoln do when he enters the mausoleum in Chapter 16?

4. How is Abraham Lincoln's demeanor described in the Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Isabelle Perkins excerpt in Chapter 7?

5. What is the unnatural predilection that Roger Bevins III describes in Chapter 9?

6. How is Mrs. Delaney's plight described in Chapter 31?

7. What is notable about the dialogues of Eddie and Betsy Baron?

8. Who are the Three Bachelors and how are they described?

9. How does Roger Bevins III describe his suicide attempt in Chapter 9?

10. What is the significance of the state dinner held by the Lincolns in the novel?

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