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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. How did Lincoln feel without Mary?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Worried.
(c) Content.
(d) Depressed.

2. Sixteen-year-old Abraham grew estranged from his farmer father. Why?
(a) His father wanted him to be educated.
(b) His father was cruel and unfeeling.
(c) His father did not understand his son's desire for education.
(d) His father did not understand his son's desire to be President.

3. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(b) The Nebraska Bill.
(c) The Missouri Bill.
(d) The Kansas Bill.

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

5. In November Lincoln and Douglas had their first debate over what, starting a rivalry that would last years?
(a) Negro suffrage.
(b) State banks.
(c) Female suffrage.
(d) The national debt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lincoln not drink alcohol?

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

3. Describe Thomas Lincoln.

4. Lincoln was intimidated by Mary's _______________.

5. Lincoln and Mary secretly became engaged, and set November 4th as their wedding date. When did they tell her family?

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