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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VI. Events Have Controlled Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was "In This Sad World of Ours" for?
(a) A politician who lost a son in the war.
(b) A young girl whose father was killed in the war.
(c) A friend who lost a brother in the war.
(d) A widow whose sons were killed in the war.

2. When was "The Last, Best Hope of Earth" written?
(a) December 1862.
(b) November 1962.
(c) January 1963.
(d) February 1963.

3. What did Lincoln refuse to do in "Will Be Received and Considered"?
(a) Negotiate with the South.
(b) Abolish conscription.
(c) Create another army.
(d) Increase war spending.

4. What was one of Lincoln key objectives in the war according to "Making Our Advantage an Over-match for His"?
(a) South Tennessee.
(b) West Tennessee.
(c) North Tennessee.
(d) East Tennessee.

5. What did "Questions I Reserve to Myself" foreshadow?
(a) Proclamation for National Fast Day.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Thanksgiving Proclamation.
(d) Proclamation to Overrule the General's Emancipation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered improper at the time of the writing of "The Taste is in My Mouth"?

2. When was Lincoln politically adrift in "Where I Now Stand"?

3. What line of the Declaration did Lincoln cite in"All the Powers of Earth Seem Rapidly Combining Against Him"?

4. When was "Right Makes Might" written?

5. What charges was "Blowing Out the Moral Lights Around Us" a response to?

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