This page contains a quiz that you may wish to take just for fun. It pertains to the life of Abraham Lincoln. You may select another quiz from the archives page by clicking here or Archives in the Site Menu of the contents frame to the left.
The source of the questions and answers is Carl Sandberg's monumental work, Abraham Lincoln, Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1926. This quiz is from Volume 1 of this work, The Prairie Years. This web page is paid for by the Hancock County Republican Committee, Brenda Breeding, Treasurer. It is not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.
1. Abraham Lincoln was born in which state?
2. Abraham Lincoln's mother's maiden name was
b. the biblical patriarch, Abraham.
4. When Abe Lincoln was between three and seven, he lived at Knob Creek Farm where his family frequently housed an explorer, doctor and scientist named
c. Christopher Columbus Graham.
5. Abraham Lincoln's grandfather on his father's side met his death by
b. being shot dead by an Indian.
6. In 1816, when Abe Lincoln was seven years old, his family moved from Kentucky to
7. Abe Lincoln's family moved west with other settlers in "new swarms continually advancing upon the country like flocks of pigeons." Who first used this simile?
8. Nancy Lincoln, Abe Lincoln's mother, died of the "milk sick" in Buckhorn Valley. Lincoln's father subsequently married a widow named
9. What was the name of Abe Lincoln's older sister?
10. By the time he was 17, Abe Lincoln was
b. over six feet three inches high.