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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sumner sees freeing the slaves to be _________________.
(a) a military necessity.
(b) the moral choice.
(c) a waste of time.
(d) a religious imperative.

2. Which of the following bad news does Lincoln NOT receive in Chapter 13?
(a) Telegraph and railroad lines are cut.
(b) Mrs. Lincoln has tuberculosis.
(c) High-ranking military men defect.
(d) Rebel forces surround Washington.

3. Who supplies White House gossip to those at Thompson's Drug Store?
(a) Kate Chase.
(b) Lincoln's bodyguard.
(c) The White House doorkeeper.
(d) David Herold.

4. Who was Abraham Lincoln's Democratic opponent in 1864?
(a) Buford.
(b) McClellan.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Grant.

5. Whose face appears on the new U.S. dollar bill?
(a) Chase's.
(b) Seward's.
(c) Lincoln's.
(d) Blair's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease is McClellan purported to have?

2. Who sets out on a week-long debauch after Kate's party?

3. Even though he is a drunk, ___________ is deemed a better general than McClellan.

4. Why is Lincoln assured of political victory in Chapter 6?

5. Chase and Seward agree between themselves that Lincoln must let them run the government as a ____________.

(see the answer key)

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