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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Eight: This Fiery Trial.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On January 1st, 1863, as Commander in Chief of the army and navy, Lincoln would do what?
(a) Force all white men age eighteen and older to join the military.
(b) Force all POWs to be Union soldiers.
(c) Send his army and navy fleets to battle.
(d) Liberate all slaves in the rebel states.

2. Who were refuges for Lincoln?
(a) Lincoln's cabinet members.
(b) His wife and son, Robert.
(c) Lincoln's boys Willie and Tad.
(d) His close friends.

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

4. General Winfield Scott was _________ to take the field.
(a) Too novice.
(b) Too old.
(c) Too young.
(d) Too unsure of himself.

5. Lincoln became known as ___________ lawyer.
(a) The uneducated.
(b) Backwoods.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) A railroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Thomas Lincoln go back to Kentucky to bring home a new wife, Sarah Bush Johnston, or "Sally?"

2. After his election, Lincoln had a troubling ________.

3. Why did Lincoln grow his Quaker beard?

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

5. Lincoln demoted McClellan and had who take over the Commander in Chief job?

(see the answer key)

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