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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. What premonitions does Lincoln have?
(a) Mrs. Lincoln's death.
(b) Jefferson Davis sitting in the White House.
(c) Rocking his grandchildren.
(d) His premature death.

2. Who meets with smugglers to discuss how easy it would be to kill Lincoln?
(a) Duvall.
(b) McClellan.
(c) Wikoff.
(d) Seward.

3. How is Mrs. Lincoln harmed when she is victim of an assassination plot aimed for her husband?
(a) She is thrown from a carriage.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is mobbed on the street.
(d) She is poisoned.

4. Who is the general with whom Lincoln is frustrated in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) General Halleck.
(b) General Rutherford.
(c) General Grant.
(d) General Buford.

5. The conspirators want Herold to __________________.
(a) shoot Lincoln on the street.
(b) bribe the White House groundskeeper.
(c) infiltrate the White House.
(d) poison Lincoln's medications.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous document is written in Chapter 10?

2. What is the South fighting for in the Civil War?

3. Who is Lincoln's former law partner?

4. Who is Mrs. Laury?

5. What is the organization of peace Democrats opposed to the Emancipation Proclamation and the draft?

Short Essay Questions

1. What name is the Republican party known as at the Baltimore convention and what are Lincoln's views of the convention?

2. How do the Lincolns respond when their young son, Willie, dies?

3. Why does Booth say Lincoln must be poisoned soon?

4. Why do the conspirators want to ramp up efforts to kill Lincoln prior to the election of 1864?

5. Why does Sprague get involved in getting cotton past blockades and into New England?

6. What is the source of Lincoln's resolve in the 100 days prior to the election?

7. What is Lincoln's stance on abolition as the election of 1864 looms?

8. What are the circumstances of David Herold meeting John Wilkes Booth?

9. Why does Lincoln find humor in the rumor that McClellan may wage a military coup against him?

10. Who is William Herndon and what is the reason for his visit to see Lincoln?

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