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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What charges was "Blowing Out the Moral Lights Around Us" a response to?
(a) Lincoln being an abolitionist.
(b) Lincoln being a pacifist.
(c) Lincoln being a politician.
(d) Lincoln being pro-slavery.

2. What was "The Union is Perpetual" written for?
(a) A letter to his wife.
(b) His inaugural address.
(c) His first speech to Congress.
(d) A letter to his constituents.

3. Who was "An Affectionate Farewell" intended for?
(a) His family.
(b) His close friend
(c) Mary Todd.
(d) His Illinois constituents.

4. Who did Lincoln offend in "A House Divided" according to "Construed So Differently from Any Thing Intended by Me"?
(a) Southern States.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Southern plantation owners.
(d) Democrats.

5. What theory is Lincoln supporting in "Opens the Way for All"?
(a) The mudsill theory.
(b) The value theory.
(c) The free labor theory.
(d) The theory of appropriation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was still an unpopular stance at the time Lincoln wrote "Where I Now Stand"?

3. Who was "For a Vast Future Also" intended for?

4. When did Mary Todd and Lincoln reconcile?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What will tear the Union asunder according to Lincoln's address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield?

2. What kind of existence did Lincoln's family lead?

3. What did Lincoln write in 1832 according to '"Peculiar Ambition"?

4. When was Lincoln unusually emotional?

5. What effect did Lincoln's speech in February 1860 have?

6. What did the South do after Lincoln's election in "The Perpetuity of Popular Government"?

7. What does Lincoln express frustration with in regards to Henry Clay?

8. What did a political opponent charge Lincoln with in 1846?

9. What characteristics does Lincoln consider in the ideal lawyer?

10. What did Lincoln confess to Senator Lyman Trumbull?

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