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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 is the controversy surrounding Robert Lincoln during this time?
(a) Why he is not married.
(b) Why he undermines his father's political strategies.
(c) Why he is not in the war.
(d) Why he indulges his mother's hysterics.

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

3. Which Union general proves incapable of overall command in Chapter 6?
(a) Grant.
(b) Burnside.
(c) Buford.
(d) Chamberlain.

4. What does Lincoln think when he is shot at again on the way to the Soldiers Home?
(a) He needs to get more bodyguards.
(b) He needs a bulletproof vest.
(c) Why everyone seems to hate him so much.
(d) Why the assassins don't aim for his body.

5. Who becomes Lincoln's favorite general?
(a) Burnside.
(b) Grant.
(c) Buford.
(d) McClellan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mrs. Lincoln harmed when she is victim of an assassination plot aimed for her husband?

2. Who does Sickles think is Wikoff's source of information?

3. How much debt has Mrs. Lincoln incurred for the White House at this time?

4. What is the exemption fee for a man to stay out of the war?

5. What is the name of the Union warship that goes to battle with the Confederate Merrimack?

Short Essay Questions

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

3. What is Lincoln's final stance regarding the Wikoff incident?

4. How does Seward attempt to prevent Mrs. Lincoln being involved in a scandal?

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

6. On what day does Part 2 begin and what are the two major issues facing Lincoln and his cabinet members?

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

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

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

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

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