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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true about the new Congress?
(a) It is largely Republican.
(b) It is abolitionist.
(c) It will be all-Northern.
(d) Women will be given five seats.

2. On what grounds does Seward think Lincoln can be impeached?
(a) Military aggression.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Sexual impropriety.
(d) Treason.

3. How does President Buchanan feel about leaving office?
(a) He is jealous of Lincoln.
(b) He is happy.
(c) He is angry that he was not re-elected.
(d) He wishes he had more time.

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

5. Which of Mrs. Lincoln's projects ultimately brings scandal to the White House?
(a) Entertaining slaves.
(b) Funding the Underground Railroad.
(c) Redecorating the White House.
(d) Hiring Russian servants.

6. Who does Chase want excluded from a position in Lincoln's cabinet?
(a) Anyone under the age of 60.
(b) Anyone who did not go to West Point.
(c) Anyone from a slave-holding state.
(d) Anyone who has not served on the Supreme Court.

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

8. Salmon P. Chase is visited by Henry D. and _________ Cooke to discuss Lincoln and cabinet posts.
(a) Clay.
(b) Harlan.
(c) Jay.
(d) Christopher.

9. Why does William Howard Russell, a London Times correspondent, think the South will win the war?
(a) It has better weapons.
(b) It has West Point generals.
(c) It is more highly motivated.
(d) It has more troops.

10. Who is the noted Union officer shot dead in the invasion of Alexandria?
(a) Lieutenant Ashe.
(b) Col. Ellsworth.
(c) Col. Peabody.
(d) General Grant.

11. Where does David Herold take a job?
(a) Avery Distillery.
(b) Johnson Hardware.
(c) Thompson's Pharmacy.
(d) McMiller's Dry Goods.

12. What does Mrs. Lincoln hold regularly?
(a) Prayer meeting.
(b) Book club meeting.
(c) Levee.
(d) Sewing circle.

13. Who stalks Lincoln as he walks to church with Seward?
(a) David Herold.
(b) John Wilkes Booth.
(c) Mary Surratt.
(d) Thomas Paterson.

14. What is the coded message that David Herold carries across the river?
(a) "Lucifer, god of the just and keeper of armaments."
(b) "Lucifer, the son of morning, and Satan."
(c) "Lucifer, the god of the reviled, and downtrodden."
(d) "The cock crows at the hour of Lucifer's awakening."

15. Which general does Lincoln order to take command after McDowell's retreat?
(a) General McClellan.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General Chamberlain.
(d) General Burnside.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Salmon P. Chase's daughter?

2. With whom does Lincoln side when believing that black men are not inferior to white men?

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

4. What is the mood in Washington as Chapter 14 begins?

5. Who meets Lincoln at the train station in Washington, D.C.?

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