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

2. What did Lincoln say the country did not have the capacity to do in "A Full Pardon"?
(a) Treat Confederate soldiers as criminals.
(b) Treat Confederate soldiers as loyal.
(c) Treat Confederate soldiers as people.
(d) Treat Confederate soldiers as prisoners of war.

3. 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 before the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Two weeks after the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) Two days after the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

4. When was "Give Me a Tangible Nucleus" written?
(a) December 1863.
(b) January 1864.
(c) November 1863.
(d) October 1863.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carl Schurz blame Lincoln's administration for according to "I Do Not See That Their Superiority of Success has Been So Marked"?

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

3. Who was "The Heaviest Blow Yet Dealt to the Rebellion" intended for?

4. What state did Lincoln praise for abolishing slavery?

5. Who did Lincoln criticize in "If We Never Try, We Shall Never Succeed"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lincoln foreshadow in response to a proclamation by General David Hunter?

2. What did Lincoln issue in September 1862?

3. How does Lincoln respond to Illinois Congressman Isaac Arnold?

4. What does Lincoln stress about the war to a group of soldiers?

5. What should Hooker's chief aim be according to another letter to Hooker?

6. What did Lincoln attempt to persuade Congress to do?

7. What did Lincoln point out in a December 1863 address according to "Events Have Controlled Me"?

8. What trade did Lincoln reject?

9. What was Lincoln under increasing pressure to do by July 1864?

10. What did Lincoln urge General McClellan to do in a letter?

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