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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. Who is Mrs. Laury?
(a) Mrs. Lincoln's hair stylist.
(b) Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker.
(c) Mrs. Lincoln's social secretary.
(d) Mrs. Lincoln's spiritual medium.

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

3. Which of the following does Herndon NOT tell John Hay about Lincoln's days as a young man?
(a) He did not believe in Christianity.
(b) He studied in Europe.
(c) He had mental breakdowns.
(d) He contracted syphilis.

4. What is the exemption fee for a man to stay out of the war?
(a) $50.
(b) $1000.
(c) $300.
(d) $500.

5. What disease is McClellan purported to have?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Epilepsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose marriage proposal does Kate Chase accept?

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

3. Who becomes Lincoln's favorite general?

4. Of which of the following do the Southern conspirators NOT convince the Union Army?

5. What disease does David Herold pretend to have in Part 3, Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the speculation of Mrs. Lincoln's involvement in President Lincoln's speech to Congress being printed in the New York Herald?

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

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

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

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

6. What role does the paranormal play in the lives of the Lincolns?

7. What are two reasons that David Herold is disgruntled in Chapter 7?

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

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

10. Why do the rebel spies think that Herold has succeeded in poisoning Lincoln at the time he delivers the Gettysburg Address?

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