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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many stories did William Seward's house have, making Lewis Powell's task of finding him difficult?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

3. Who held John Wilkes Booth's horse in the alley behind the theater, unknowingly help him to keep his escape route accessible?
(a) Edman Spangler.
(b) Dr. Charles Leale.
(c) Major Rathbone.
(d) John Peanut.

4. Where did Lewis Powell sleep on the two nights subsequent to the events at William Seward's house?
(a) Under the Navy Yard Bridge.
(b) In Mary Surratt's boardinghouse.
(c) In his carriage.
(d) In a tree.

5. 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 Robert E. Lee.
(b) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) Secretary of State William Seward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?

2. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?

3. Who ordered that Mary Todd Lincoln be removed from Abraham Lincoln's bedside and proclaimed that she would not be allowed in again?

4. When Major Rathbone tried to stop John Wilkes Booth after Booth had shot Lincoln, what wound did Booth inflict on Rathbone?

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

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