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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Describe Lincoln's relationship with his ancestry.
(a) His siblings were intent on knowing their relatives, but he was not.
(b) He was not interested in it.
(c) He was closely attentive to his parentage.
(d) His mother kept in touch with her relatives, but his father did not with his.
2. What did Lincoln believe he inherited from his grandmother?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Depression.
(c) Independence.
(d) Determination.
3. What position did Stephen Douglas hold when Lincoln returned to politics?
(a) U.S. Senator.
(b) U.S. Representative.
(c) Illinois Governor.
(d) Judge.
4. Whom did Lincoln follow around through his home county?
(a) The district judge.
(b) His business partner.
(c) Newspapermen.
(d) Other lawyers.
5. Describe Lincoln's relationship with his stepmother.
(a) Contentious.
(b) Invidious.
(c) Distrustful.
(d) Harmonious.
6. What effect did slavery have on politics in the 1850s?
(a) It brought people of different political parties together.
(b) It confused the issues of popular sovereignty and federal authority.
(c) It divided people within political parties into fractious groups.
(d) It muddied the issue of Indian removal.
7. Who was the President when Lincoln served in the Senate?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Taylor.
(c) Polk.
(d) Harrison.
8. Whose seat was Lincoln gunning for in 1858?
(a) Jefferson Davis's.
(b) Stephen Douglas's.
(c) James Buchanan's.
(d) Millard Fillmore's.
9. What does Donald say Lincoln was ruled by in his early career?
(a) Passions.
(b) Sentiment.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Reason.
10. What position did Douglas take in the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
(a) He attacked slavery.
(b) He attacked popular sovereignty.
(c) He attacked the federal government.
(d) He defended popular sovereignty.
11. Where was Lincoln's law firm based?
(a) Hampton County.
(b) Logan County.
(c) Sangamon County.
(d) Menard County.
12. What position did Lincoln hold after winning the 1852 election?
(a) U.S. Representative.
(b) State Senator.
(c) U.S. Senator.
(d) No position.
13. What was Lincoln's feeling about slavery?
(a) He was against it, but disliked abolitionists' methods.
(b) He campaigned strongly to end it.
(c) He did not want to end it, but did not want to allow it into new territories either.
(d) He tried to avoid taking a stance on it, but put economic issues first.
14. What was Lincoln's stance on blacks' equality?
(a) He did not accept it.
(b) He refused to deny it.
(c) He saw it as an inalienable right.
(d) He refused to take a stance on it.
15. What technological development allowed Lincoln to be home on the weekends?
(a) The telegraph.
(b) The steam engine
(c) The automobile.
(d) The telephone.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom did Lincoln support in the 1852 Presidential campaign?
2. For whose nomination for President did Lincoln campaign?
3. What was the result of Lincoln's campaign against Douglas?
4. Describe Lincoln's military career.
5. Whom did Lincoln begin to fight with as he reached adolescence?
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