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

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) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. Where was Abraham Lincoln taken after he was moved from Ford's Theater?
(a) Across the street to the Sewards' home.
(b) Across the street to a restaurant's kitchen.
(c) Across the street to Petersen's boardinghouse.
(d) Across the street to Laura Keene's house.

3. Who asked Dr. Charles Leale to treat him first, before the doctor tended to Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Captain Stargazer.
(b) Major Rathbone.
(c) Sergeant Robinson.
(d) Colonel Murray.

4. 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) On the Potomac River.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Maryland.

5. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 1/4.

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

7. 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 wanted the dramatic setting of a theater.
(b) He was too scared to use so brazen a method.
(c) He knew it would be too difficult to escape from the Executive Mansion alive.
(d) He did not see any honor in shooting a man within his own home.

8. Where in John Wilkes Booth's room at the National Hotel did investigators find a letter outlining the plot against the government?
(a) In his dresser drawer.
(b) In the flue of the fireplace.
(c) In his trunk.
(d) Under his mattress.

9. How many slaves had Dr. Samuel Mudd owned before The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted by Abraham Lincoln?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 11.

10. 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) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(b) Joseph Stewart.
(c) Laura Keene.
(d) Major Rathbone.

11. What weapon did John Wilkes Booth ultimately use to kill Abraham Lincoln?
(a) A Colt .45.
(b) A Smith and Wesson .45.
(c) A .44 Deringer.
(d) A musket.

12. 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) Lincoln's wife Mary Todd.
(b) William Seward's daughter.
(c) Lincoln's son Tad.
(d) General Ulysses S. Grant.

13. What was Dr. Samuel Mudd's diagnosis once he examined John Wilkes Booth's injured leg?
(a) Broken fibula.
(b) Dislocated ankle.
(c) Broken ankle.
(d) Broken knee.

14. How far away from Washington D.C. were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse?
(a) 30 miles away.
(b) 13 miles away.
(c) 10 miles away.
(d) 23 miles away.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?

3. What had John Wilkes Booth hidden along the carpet earlier in the day that he then used to barricade the door to the Presidential box behind him?

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

5. How many casualties did the Civil War result in?

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