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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?
(a) General Robert E. Lee.
(b) Secretary of State William Seward.
(c) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

2. On the night of the Torchlight Parade, who scooped up Abraham Lincoln's speech pages as he finished them and dropped them to the floor?
(a) William Seward's daughter.
(b) Lincoln's wife Mary Todd.
(c) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Lincoln's son Tad.

3. What was the ultimate goal of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' plan to assassinate the Union government's top leaders?
(a) To persuade General Lee to revoke his surrender.
(b) To install Confederate leaders in the place of the dead Union leaders the moment they were gone.
(c) To be awarded a ransom.
(d) To incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union.

4. What injury did John Wilkes Booth sustain in his leap from the Presidential box to the theater stage?
(a) A broken nose.
(b) A broken wrist.
(c) A broken ankle.
(d) A broken leg.

5. What tool did Dr. Charles Leale use to remove the blood clot from Abraham Lincoln's head in order to relieve pressure on his brain?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A pocketknife.
(c) His fingers.
(d) A toothpick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confronted Lewis Powell at the top of the stairs on the second floor of William Seward's house?

2. After John Wilkes Booth crossed the bridge, he turned to look for his co-conspirators. Whom did he see?

3. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?

4. How far away from Washington D.C. were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse?

5. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?

(see the answer key)

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