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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. Who led the free-soilers?
(a) Talapia Churchill.
(b) Salmon Chase.
(c) Tuna Chester.
(d) Crab Charles.

2. In 1832, what was Lincoln's first venture into political platforms?
(a) He ran for state legislature.
(b) He ran for the school board.
(c) He ran for Congress.
(d) He ran for town council.

3. Lincoln preached what?
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Impassioned demonstrations rather than reason and calculated solutions.
(c) Imperialism.
(d) Reason and calculated solutions rather than impassioned demonstrations.

4. Describe Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
(a) Immature and irresponsible.
(b) Stern and unemotional.
(c) Withdrawn and melancholy.
(d) Convivial and hard-working.

5. Why did Thomas Lincoln go back to Kentucky to bring home a new wife, Sarah Bush Johnston, or "Sally?"
(a) He fell in love with Sally.
(b) His household was floundering.
(c) His children asked him for a mother.
(d) He was lonely.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Republicans held a convention with Lincoln as the keynote speaker, and he gave an hour-and-a-half long impromptu speech. As what is this speech known?

3. How did Robert Lincoln feel when his father was away on political trips?

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?

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

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