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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters III-V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many stories did William Seward's house have, making Lewis Powell's task of finding him difficult?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. What color uniforms did Northern soldiers wear during the Civil War?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

3. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?
(a) The head of the Secret Service.
(b) The Lincolns' servant.
(c) The Rathbones' servant.
(d) The theater's security guard.

4. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Hyperbole.

5. When Major Rathbone tried to stop John Wilkes Booth after Booth had shot Lincoln, what wound did Booth inflict on Rathbone?
(a) He threw him off the balcony, breaking his nose.
(b) He stabbed him in the leg.
(c) He stabbed him in the arm.
(d) He punched him in the nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. The plot to assassinate the top Union leaders included all but which of the following people?

2. What piece of medical equipment did Dr. Charles Leale send a hospital steward to retrieve so that he could work on Lincoln's brain in hopes of saving him?

3. What injury did John Wilkes Booth sustain in his leap from the Presidential box to the theater stage?

4. Where did Lewis Powell sleep on the two nights subsequent to the events at William Seward's house?

5. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?

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