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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. 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 cauterizing gun.
(c) A scalpel.
(d) A tracheotomy tube.

2. What did David Herold say was a condition of helping Lewis Powell with the plot to assassinate William Seward?
(a) He did not want to have to clean up any mess.
(b) He did not want to kill anybody himself.
(c) He did not want to drive the carriage.
(d) He did not want to enact the plot during daylight hours.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked Dr. Charles Leale to treat him first, before the doctor tended to Abraham Lincoln?

2. What bridge was the only way out of Washington D.C. and into Maryland?

3. What rule was in place about the bridge that John Wilkes Booth intended to cross on his escape into Maryland?

4. On the afternoon on the day of Lincoln's assassination, what plans did Abraham Lincoln reveal to Mary Todd Lincoln about their future after his second term as president was complete?

5. For how many years did the Civil War last?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the photo that was taken at Abraham Lincoln's inauguration and that includes John Wilkes Booth?

4. How does James L. Swanson characterize the personality of the actress Laura Keene, who was present at the scene of John Wilkes Booth's shooting of Abraham Lincoln.

5. How did John Wilkes Booth's knowledge of Ford's Theater facilitate his assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

6. 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?

7. What is James L. Swanson's purpose when he describes John Wilkes Booth's passions as including "the romance of lost causes"? (2)

8. What was the main goal of the plot to assassinate the Union's top governmental leaders all in one night?

9. In what ways is Lewis Powell portrayed as a pathetic character after his attempt to take William Seward's life?

10. What were the reasons that Dr. Charles Leale wanted to move Abraham Lincoln from the theater, even though he had just proclaimed his wounds sure to be fatal?

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