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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was excluded from the Emancipation Proclamation according to "Give Up All Footing Upon Constitution or Law"?
(a) Several states.
(b) Several personal friends of Lincoln.
(c) Several Republican financial backers.
(d) Several state counties.

2. Who sent the letter prompting Lincoln to write "Not an Entirely Impartial Judge"?
(a) General Grant.
(b) Jefferson Davis.
(c) A pro-slavery white man.
(d) A Confederate minister.

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

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

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

6. Who does Lincoln thank in "Not Best to Swap Horses When Crossing Streams"?
(a) The Republican party.
(b) The anti-slavery league.
(c) The Democratic party.
(d) The Union League.

7. When was "The World Has Never Had a Good Definition of Liberty" written?
(a) April 1864.
(b) January1864.
(c) March 1864.
(d) May 1864.

8. How was the Emancipation Proclamation written?
(a) In a straightforward manner.
(b) In a brief manner.
(c) With rhetoric to support it.
(d) Straightforward and brief.

9. What state did Lincoln praise for abolishing slavery?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Florida.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) North Carolina.

10. When was "The New Reckoning" written?
(a) December 1863.
(b) December 1864.
(c) December 1865.
(d) December 1862.

11. 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.

12. Who was "I Am Distressed Immeasurably" intended for?
(a) General Grant.
(b) General Meade.
(c) General McClellan.
(d) General Sherman.

13. Who was "The Last, Best Hope of Earth" intended for?
(a) A family member.
(b) A friend.
(c) A newspaper journalist.
(d) Congress.

14. Why was Lincoln at his lowest when he wrote "The Will of God Prevails"?
(a) The Union was defeated again at Bull Run.
(b) The Union was defeated at the Battle of Wilderness.
(c) The Union was defeated at the Battle of Shiloh.
(d) The Union was defeated at the Battle of Antietam.

15. What did Lincoln support in "It Works Doubly"?
(a) The use of Native American soldiers.
(b) The use of defecting Confederate soldiers.
(c) The use of Irish soldiers.
(d) The use of black soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did "Shall Be Thenceforth, and Forever Free" give to the Confederacy states to rejoin the Union?

2. What became the most contentious issue of the Reconstruction era according to "A Full Pardon"?

3. When was "The Election Was a Necessity" written?

4. Why was Hooker supposed to pursue Lee's army according to "There is No Eligible Route for Us into Richmond"?

5. What military stalemate did Lincoln address in "An Idea I Have Been Trying to Repudiate for Quite a Year" ?

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