{"id":49,"date":"2008-12-09T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions-quiz-answer-4\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T20:43:25","slug":"lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions-quiz-answer-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions-quiz-answer-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Myths and Misconceptions Quiz: Answer 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/files\/2008\/12\/16117.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"16117\" width=\"381\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882).<\/strong> Mary Todd Lincoln is shown here in a daguerreotype taken in Springfield, four years after she married Abraham Lincoln.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>4.  Mary Todd Lincoln was committed to a mental institution after Lincoln\u2019s death.<br \/>\nTrue<br \/>\nFalse<\/p>\n<p>TRUE. <\/strong> Unquestionably, Mary Todd Lincoln had an eccentric personality.  She was very outgoing and talkative, and craved attention and affection.  She was also very high-strung, with an explosive temper, and was prone to outbursts.  According to one story, she hit Lincoln over the head with a piece of firewood when he let the fire go out!  She was also irresponsible with money, forging invoices at the White House, and going on wild shopping sprees.<\/p>\n<p>After the death of their son Willie Lincoln, Mary went into a period of mourning so extensive that her husband threatened to send her to an insane asylum.  It wasn\u2019t until many years after Lincoln\u2019s death, however, that their son Robert Todd Lincoln had his mother declared legally insane.   She was committed in May of 1875, and spent four months at the Bellevue Sanitarium in Batavia, IL.<br \/>\nMary\u2019s behavior throughout her life was certainly erratic, but it is debatable whether she would have been declared \u201cinsane\u201d by 21st century standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882). Mary Todd Lincoln is shown here in a daguerreotype taken in Springfield, four years after she married Abraham Lincoln. 4. Mary Todd Lincoln was committed to a mental institution after Lincoln\u2019s death. True False TRUE. Unquestionably, Mary Todd Lincoln had an eccentric personality. She was very outgoing and talkative, and craved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lincoln Myths and Misconceptions Quiz: Answer 4 | Looking for Lincoln | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions-quiz-answer-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lincoln Myths and Misconceptions Quiz: Answer 4 | Looking for Lincoln | PBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882). 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