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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters III-V.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) The Confederate flag.
(d) His five favorite girlfriends.

3. Who confronted Lewis Powell at the top of the stairs on the second floor of William Seward's house?
(a) Fanny Seward.
(b) John Wilkes Booth.
(c) Major Rathbone.
(d) Frederick Seward.

4. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Hyperbole.

5. What does the word secede mean?
(a) To be superior to.
(b) To attack.
(c) To separate.
(d) To annihilate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Worried that Lewis Powell or other assassins might return to the house, what action did Fanny Seward take throughout the night after the attack?

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

4. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?

5. 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?

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