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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 reason did Dr. Charles Leale give for the impossibility of taking Abraham Lincoln to the White House after he was shot?
(a) The doctor would not be able to tend to Abraham Lincoln in transit.
(b) The bumpy ride would jostle his head and kill him.
(c) The crowds outside were already too thick to maneuver a carriage through their number.
(d) It would take too long to get there.

3. Who answered the door when Lewis Powell rang the doorbell at William Seward's house?
(a) Fanny Seward.
(b) William Seward's doctor.
(c) The Sewards' servant.
(d) Frederick Seward.

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

5. How long did John Wilkes Booth have between finding out about Lincoln's plans to attend the play and his assassination of the President?
(a) 8 hours.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 2 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the actress Laura Keene use as a passport into the President's box at Ford's Theater where Abraham Lincoln lay dying?

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. How many casualties did the Civil War result in?

4. What distinctive marking did John Wilkes Booth's horse have on her body?

5. When Lewis Powell got outside and found that Herold had fled with the getaway carriage, what did he do?

(see the answer key)

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