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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Unionists calling the army to go easy on according to "Leaving Any Available Card Unplayed"?
(a) Confederate forces in Georgia.
(b) Confederate forces in Arkansas.
(c) Confederate forces in South Carolina.
(d) Confederate forces in Louisiana.

2. What happened to white Union commanders leading black soldiers captured by Confederates according to "The Same Protection to All Its Soldiers"?
(a) They were forced to serve in the Confederate army.
(b) They were killed.
(c) They were sent home.
(d) They were forced to sign confession letters.

3. Why did Lincoln send "Quarrel Not at All" to the brother in law of Stephen Douglas?
(a) To prevent distention in Congress.
(b) To humiliate Stephen Douglas.
(c) To avoid further embarrassment to his family.
(d) To make an example.

4. What did Carl Schurz blame Lincoln's administration for according to "I Do Not See That Their Superiority of Success has Been So Marked"?
(a) The taxes increase.
(b) The war and Republican failure at the 1862 election.
(c) The economy going down.
(d) The lack of education founding.

5. Who does Lincoln congratulate in "You Were Right, and I Was Wrong"?
(a) General Marshall.
(b) General Sherman.
(c) General Grant.
(d) General McClellan.

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

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

8. How long did "Shall Be Thenceforth, and Forever Free" give to the Confederacy states to rejoin the Union?
(a) 90 days.
(b) 80 days.
(c) 50 days.
(d) 100 days.

9. What was "I Can Not Consent to Suspend the Draft" a response to?
(a) Riots in New York.
(b) Riots in Washington.
(c) Riots in Philadelphia.
(d) Riots in Portland.

10. What did Lincoln call radicals in "The Jewel of Liberty"?
(a) Giving African Americans equal rights.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Giving former slaves in North Carolina reparation.
(d) Incoporating African Americans in the regular army.

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

12. When was the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued according to "Shall Be Thenceforth, and Forever Free"?
(a) September 1862.
(b) December1862.
(c) October 1862.
(d) November 1862.

13. What compelled Lincoln to take the steps leading to war and the Emancipation Proclamation according to "If Slavery is Not Wrong, Nothing is Wrong"?
(a) The view that he thought would have him reelected.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) His personal view.
(d) The view most popular according to a recent survey.

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

15. What does Lincoln want in "I Expect to Maintain this Contest"?
(a) More money.
(b) More troops.
(c) More support from government leaders.
(d) More supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sent the letter prompting Lincoln to write "Not an Entirely Impartial Judge"?

2. What was in the works by August of 1862 according to the editor?

3. What offer did Lincoln reject in "Few Things are So Troublesome"?

4. When was "The New Reckoning" written?

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

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