This page contains the continuation of a quiz that you may wish to take just for fun. It pertains to the life of Abraham Lincoln. The previous Lincoln Quiz can be selected by clicking HERE. 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.
11. One of Abraham Lincoln's ancestors was born out of wedlock to a person of ill repute. The person born out of wedlock was
12. As a young boy, Lincoln wrote a paper opposing
c. the proliferation of steamboats.
13. The seventeen year old Abe Lincoln worked on the farm, owned by James Taylor, at the mouth of Anderson Creek on the Ohio River. In addition to the farm work he
a. piloted a steamboat on the Ohio River.
b. ran the ferry boat across the Ohio River.
c. hunted game along the creek.
d. acted as a wilderness guide.
14. On what charges was Abraham Lincoln arrested and tried?
a. ferrying passengers from Indiana to Kentucky.
b. assaulting the Dill brothers who operated a competing ferry.
c. ferrying passengers from Indiana to steamboats on the Ohio River.
d. being in contempt of court while testifying in Squire Samuel Pate's court.
15. Abe Lincoln sustained a gash above his right eye that produced a permanent scar while he was
a. building a flat-bottom boat.
d. traveling by horseback to Illinois.
16. During the spring of 1830 when Abe Lincoln had reached his majority, the Lincoln family moved to
b. Goose Nest Prairie, Illinois.
d. Goose Nest Prairie, Indiana.
17. In 1831, Lincoln left his family to start a new life. He canoed down the Sangamon River to become a store clerk in the Illinois town of
18. When he arrived alone in his new home in 1831, Lincoln was pressed into service by the people of the town on the day he arrived to be
19. At the age of 22, Abe Lincoln realized a dream when he accepted a job as a
c. supervisor of county work gangs.
20. When the Indian chief, Blackhawk, of the Sac Tribe declared war on the white man, Lincoln joined an Illinois regiment and was elected to the rank of