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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the night of April 11th at the Torchlight Parade, what did Lincoln say in his speech regarding African-Americans?
(a) That they should be granted the right to vote.
(b) That they should each be granted 40 acres and a mule.
(c) That they had waited too long to be freed from slavery.
(d) That they should be free to marry whomever they chose, regardless of race.

2. What was the subject of the photographs John Wilkes Booth took with him the night of the assassination?
(a) His children.
(b) His mother.
(c) His five favorite girlfriends.
(d) The Confederate flag.

3. What two items did John Wilkes Booth retrieve from Mary Sarratt's boardinghouse on the night of the assassination attempts?
(a) Binoculars and a gun.
(b) A gun and a knife.
(c) A knife and a horse.
(d) A map and a compass.

4. What was the subject of Lincoln's dream the night before the assassination, as recorded by Secretary Welles in his diary?
(a) Water.
(b) Air.
(c) Earth.
(d) Fire.

5. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?
(a) 901.
(b) 701.
(c) 601.
(d) 501.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. On what date did Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederate States of America, fall to Union forces?

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

5. What did Lewis Powell carry with him to William Sewards' door in order to make his lie more believable?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the only audience member in Ford's Theater to chase after John Wilkes Booth and why did no one else follow him?

2. What qualities of William Seward's situation caused him to chosen by the assassins as the third target in the assassination plot, in addition to Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson?

3. How was Frederick Seward injured during Lewis Powell's attempt to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward?

4. What danger to Lewis Powell's assassination plot lurked in William Seward's room of which Lewis Powell was unaware?

5. What methods does James L. Swanson use to convey the chaotic nature of the scene within Ford's Theater after John Wilkes Booth had escaped?

6. How does James L. Swanson use the words of Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, to foreshadow the coming death of Abraham Lincoln?

7. Since John Wilkes Booth could have easily gained an audience with President Abraham Lincoln in the Executive Mansion using his famous face, why did he not just assassinate him in such a meeting?

8. How does James L. Swanson create suspense in the scene when Lewis Powell attempts to assassinate William Seward?

9. In the scene of Abraham Lincoln being moved from the theater, how does James L. Swanson get across the message of how damaging people's morbid curiosity can be?

10. How does James L. Swanson demonstrate Fanny Seward's courage and ferocity within the scene of Lewis Powell's attempt to take her father's life?

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