Q 01/05

In what state was Abraham Lincoln born?

A) Illinois

B) Indiana

C) Ohio

D) Kentucky

Answer · why

D) Kentucky

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, near Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809.

Q 02/05

Whom did Abraham Lincoln marry on November 4, 1842?

A) Mary Todd

B) Ann Rutledge

C) Mary Owens

D) Julia Dent

Answer · why

A) Mary Todd

They met in Springfield in 1839, and Lincoln broke off the engagement in early 1841 before the couple reconciled and married on November 4, 1842.

Q 03/05

Which profession did Abraham Lincoln teach himself from borrowed books?

A) Farmer

B) Lawyer

C) Teacher

D) Blacksmith

Answer · why

B) Lawyer

He never studied in an established attorney's office; he read law on his own from borrowed texts and was admitted to the bar in September 1836.

Q 04/05

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States during which major conflict?

A) War of 1812

B) American Civil War

C) Spanish-American War

D) Mexican-American War

Answer · why

B) American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, serving as president from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

Q 05/05

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

A) Charles Guiteau

B) Lee Harvey Oswald

C) James Earl Ray

D) John Wilkes Booth

Answer · why

D) John Wilkes Booth

The shooting came just five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox; the assassin, a well-known actor, was tracked down and killed at a Virginia farm...