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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. When did Lincoln suspend the right of Habeas Corpus according to "The Writ of Habeas Corpus is Suspended" ?
(a) Two weeks before the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) Two days after the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Two days before the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) Two weeks after the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

2. What military stalemate did Lincoln address in "An Idea I Have Been Trying to Repudiate for Quite a Year" ?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Florida.

3. What policy did Lincoln ask congress to help with in "Gradual Emancipation is Better for All"?
(a) Gradual arrests of disloyal residents and gradual emancipation.
(b) Gradual emancipation and full suffrage.
(c) Gradual suffrage.
(d) Gradual emancipation.

4. When was "A Moral, a Social, and a Political Wrong" written?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1858.

5. Who was "But You Must Act" intended for?
(a) General McCook.
(b) General McClellan.
(c) General McArthur.
(d) General McCall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What claims did Lincoln dismiss in "Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended"?

2. How did Lincoln react to the reception of the Emancipation Proclamation according to "Breath Alone Kills No Rebels" ?

3. What did Lincoln consider the Civil War to be a test of according to "A People's Contest"?

4. Who did Lincoln express his frustration with for not voting for the Party candidate in the presidential election?

5. Why did Lincoln want troops to be raised in "To Suppress Said Combinations"?

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