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

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

3. Lincoln's Republicans wanted him to pin Douglas down on what?
(a) His illegal actions.
(b) His beliefs about slavery.
(c) His tax evasion.
(d) All the contradictions he had made in his campaign.

4. 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?
(a) The Last Speech.
(b) The Best Speech.
(c) The Worst Speech.
(d) The Lost Speech.

5. Kansas rejected the LeCompton Constitution, ensuring what?
(a) It would eventually be a slave state.
(b) It would eventually be a free state.
(c) It could be a free state.
(d) It would be a slave state.

Short Answer Questions

1. Their first debate was in what town?

2. Why did Lincoln not drink alcohol?

3. In January __________, a Lincoln campaign for Presidential candidacy was officially underway.

4. Anti-Nebraska groups began calling themselves what?

5. What were Douglas' ideas causing in the Democratic party?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what deaths do the Lincolns have to deal?

2. What was the "Lost Speech?"

3. Describe Mary Todd.

4. What did Lincoln think about the Mexican War?

5. How did the Republicans want Lincoln to pin down Douglas?

6. With what is Lincoln concerned? How does he feel this issue should be handled?

7. What political party did Lincoln join? Who were their rivals?

8. How was Lincoln unique as a lawyer?

9. What were the results when Lincoln and Douglas put themselves forth as Presidential candidates?

10. What was the Missouri Compromise? How did the Kansas-Nebraska Bill affect the Missouri Compromise?

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