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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. What was General Hooker appointed as at the time of "I Will Risk the Dictatorship"?
(a) Commander of the Potomac army.
(b) Commander of the Massachusetts army.
(c) Commander of the Virginia army.
(d) Commander of the Union armies.

2. What military objective did Lincoln remind the recipient of "I Am Not Watching You with an Evil-Eye" was vital to the war effort?
(a) East Tennessee.
(b) East Mississippi.
(c) East Maine.
(d) East Florida.

3. What was Lincoln's number one priority in the war according to "I Would Save the Union"?
(a) Freeing the slaves.
(b) Maintaining his legacy.
(c) Saving the Union.
(d) Humiliating Jefferson Davis.

4. How many troops did Lincoln order to Fort Sumter in "To Suppress Said Combinations"?
(a) 25000.
(b) 250000.
(c) 75,000.
(d) 125000.

5. What order did John Fremont give according to "To Conform to the Act of Congress"?
(a) To free slaves of disloyal residents.
(b) To free slaves in three cities.
(c) To free slaves of plantation owners.
(d) To free slaves of captured soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lincoln say was one of government's most important roles in "The Legitimate Object of Government"?

2. Why was war never declared between the Union and the Confederacy?

3. What did Lincoln point to as the reason for the war continuing in "The Curses of Heaven"?

4. When was "The Tug Has to Come" written?

5. Why did Lincoln thank the recipient of "Not Best to Swap Horses When Crossing Streams" for?

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