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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Worried that Lewis Powell or other assassins might return to the house, what action did Fanny Seward take throughout the night after the attack?
2. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?
3. Though several couples declined the Lincolns' invitation to attend the play, one couple did accept. Who accompanied the Lincolns to the play on the night of Lincoln's assassination?
4. What injury did John Wilkes Booth sustain in his leap from the Presidential box to the theater stage?
5. What does the word secede mean?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the main goal of the plot to assassinate the Union's top governmental leaders all in one night?
2. How was Frederick Seward injured during Lewis Powell's attempt to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward?
3. Who was the only audience member in Ford's Theater to chase after John Wilkes Booth and why did no one else follow him?
4. How does James L. Swanson use the words of Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, to foreshadow the coming death of Abraham Lincoln?
5. 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?
6. What is the author's purpose in relating the events of Mary Lincoln Todd's and Abraham Lincoln's afternoon together on the date of the assassination?
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. How does James L. Swanson create suspense in the scene when Lewis Powell attempts to assassinate William Seward?
9. How did John Wilkes Booth's knowledge of Ford's Theater facilitate his assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
10. What are two themes touched upon within Abraham Lincoln's inauguration day speech of 1865?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the author's use of the omniscient third person point of view serve his purposes over the course of the book? Discuss how his choice of point of view helps to advance his treatment of at least three particular themes within the novel. Use concrete details from the text to support your points.
Essay Topic 2
Choose a symbolic object from the novel, such as Booth's pistol, Laura Keene's dress, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text. Use concrete details from the book to support your points.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author's treatment of the climactic scene of the manhunters' discovery of John Wilkes Booth at the Garrett Farm. Why is the author so concerned with the actions of Baker and his men and how does the tone of his writing in this scene reflect his attitude about the actions of Baker and his men? Use concrete details from the text to support your points.
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