1. 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 enact the plot during daylight hours.
(c) He did not want to kill anybody himself.
(d) He did not want to drive the carriage.

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

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

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

5. For how many years did the Civil War last?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer 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?

2. Where was Abraham Lincoln taken after he was moved from Ford's Theater?

3. What wound did Lewis Powell successfully inflict upon William Seward, though he did not succeed in killing him?

4. What was the subject of Lincoln's dream the night before the assassination, as recorded by Secretary Welles in his diary?

5. What color uniforms did Southern soldiers wear during the Civil War?

(see the answer key)

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