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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 15-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people of Virginia do on the first day of the battle in Virginia?
(a) Take picnic lunches to watch the battle.
(b) Hide in their basements.
(c) Escape to Philadelphia.
(d) Hold war parades.

2. How does Salmon P. Chase propose to pay for a war?
(a) Fundraising.
(b) Income tax.
(c) Tobacco tax.
(d) Borrow money from England.

3. Who is Emilie Helm?
(a) Mrs. Lincoln's social secretary.
(b) Mrs. Lincoln's half-sister.
(c) Mrs. Lincoln's seamstress.
(d) Mrs. Lincoln's best friend.

4. Who does Lincoln meet at Willard's Hotel and who agrees to be Secretary of State?
(a) William H. Steward.
(b) Walter H. Stewart.
(c) William H. Seward.
(d) Walter F. Seward.

5. What is the name of the plan which called for Seward to run the government with Lincoln as a figurehead?
(a) Albany Plany.
(b) Transition Plan.
(c) Schnectady Plan.
(d) Shadow Plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can David Herold best be described?

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

3. What does Mrs. Lincoln hold regularly?

4. Seward and _____________ emerge as the Cabinet's leading figures.

5. Who supplies White House gossip to those at Thompson's Drug Store?

(see the answer key)

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