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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Revolt Against the Fathers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Insecurities with whom would plague him for many years?
(a) Women.
(b) His stepmother.
(c) His father.
(d) Other politicians.

2. What event perpetuated Lincoln's fatalistic beliefs and preoccupation with death?
(a) The death of Lincoln's wife in 1828.
(b) Lincoln's sister, Sarah, died in 1828 in childbirth.
(c) Lincoln's father's death in 1828.
(d) The death of Sally in 1828 in childbirth.

3. Why did Lincoln believe Douglas allied with Southern leaders?
(a) To please the people.
(b) To help the leaders.
(c) To protect the Union.
(d) To gain his own ends.

4. After inauguration, the President passed what, declaring the Declaration a white man's document, and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in any of the territories?
(a) The Missouri Compromise.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(c) The Dred Scott Decision.
(d) The Emancipation Proclamation.

5. How did Lincoln feel about this scandal?
(a) Worried.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Happy.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did many free-soilers feel about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?

2. Lincoln read newspapers voraciously, and was concerned about what?

3. Lincoln read voraciously and taught himself mathematics, but his real interest was in what?

4. On the way down the river to New Orleans, what happened to Lincoln and his friend's raft?

5. Where were the Lincolns married?

(see the answer key)

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