"A Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Mary Todd Lincoln"

What item made by Elizabeth Keckley was discussed at the beginning of the article?

• a cocktail dress

• a silk scarf

• a quilt

• an afghan

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What did Keckley make the quilt from?

• wool

• scraps left from dresses she had made for Mrs. Lincoln

• scraps left from a blue scarf made for Mrs. Lincoln's sister

• cotton

How did most people in Washington, D.C., view the Lincon's?

• as their revered President and First Lady

• as scholars of politics

• as bumbling countryfolk & invaders

• as rude & uneducated

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Elizabeth Keckley was all of the following to the Lincoln's EXCEPT....

• nurse to Willie when he was sick

• Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker

• a friend

• caretaker of the President's goats

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What quality helped Keckley tolerate Mrs. Lincoln even when her family couldn't deal with her?

• She had learned how to get along with difficult people as a slave.

• Her sewing skills made her patient.

• She knew how to take care of children.

• She learned that she was nothing more than a slave.

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The article describes Abraham Lincoln as what for most Americans?

• a great man

• a terrible president

• a father of emancipation

• a revered figure

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All of the following were issues Americans faced in the 1860s and are still faced by Americans in our time EXCEPT....

• a war with Ukraine

• true racial equality

• how much power the president should have

• the role of government

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