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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the cause of William Seward's injuries that caused him to be healing in bed when the assassination attempt on his life was made?
(a) A ferris wheel accident.
(b) A fall.
(c) A carriage accident.
(d) An arrow wound.

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?
(a) A cauterizing gun.
(b) A Nelaton probe.
(c) A scalpel.
(d) A tracheotomy tube.

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

4. How old was William Seward's daughter Fanny on the night of the assassination attempt?
(a) 20.
(b) 16.
(c) 13.
(d) 18.

5. Who was the only audience member at Ford's Theater the night of the assassination to chase after John Wilkes Booth after the shooting?
(a) Joseph Stewart.
(b) Laura Keene.
(c) Major Rathbone.
(d) Mary Todd Lincoln.

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

7. When Lewis Powell got outside and found that Herold had fled with the getaway carriage, what did he do?
(a) He pushed a passerby out of a carriage and stole it.
(b) He jumped on his horse and rode away.
(c) He took off running down the street.
(d) He rode off down the street on his bicycle.

8. What noise finally led David Herold to flee the scene in the getaway carriage before Lewis Powell had emerged from the house?
(a) Fanny Seward screaming out of the window into the street.
(b) The sound of gunshots.
(c) The sound of barking dogs.
(d) William Bell running out of the house and screaming.

9. Though it would have been easy for John Wilkes Booth to gain an audience with President Lincoln within the Executive Mansion due to Booth's acting fame, why did he not take that action?
(a) He was too scared to use so brazen a method.
(b) He did not see any honor in shooting a man within his own home.
(c) He knew it would be too difficult to escape from the Executive Mansion alive.
(d) He wanted the dramatic setting of a theater.

10. What rule was in place about the bridge that John Wilkes Booth intended to cross on his escape into Maryland?
(a) Anyone crossing the bridge had to pay a toll.
(b) No one was allowed to cross the bridge after dark.
(c) No one was allowed to take a horse over the bridge.
(d) Any crossing the bridge had to dismount his horse and walk his horse over the bridge.

11. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?
(a) The Washington monument.
(b) The Lincoln monument.
(c) The Smithsonian Museum.
(d) The Capitol dome.

12. How many casualties did the Civil War result in?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 600,000.
(d) One million.

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

14. Where were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse located at which John Wilkes Booth had hidden weapons and supplies to be retrieved after his murder of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) On the Potomac River.

15. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?
(a) Long live the Confederacy.
(b) The South has won.
(c) The South is avenged.
(d) Slavery forever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Lewis Powell rang the bell at William Seward's house, what lie did he tell in order to gain entry?

3. What wound did Lewis Powell successfully inflict upon William Seward, though he did not succeed in killing him?

4. What reason did Dr. Charles Leale give for the impossibility of taking Abraham Lincoln to the White House after he was shot?

5. What was the title of the play during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

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