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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?
(a) Slavery forever.
(b) The South is avenged.
(c) Long live the Confederacy.
(d) The South has won.

3. What was Dr. Samuel Mudd's diagnosis once he examined John Wilkes Booth's injured leg?
(a) Broken knee.
(b) Broken ankle.
(c) Dislocated ankle.
(d) Broken fibula.

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

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) 2 days.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 8 hours.

6. Where was Abraham Lincoln taken after he was moved from Ford's Theater?
(a) Across the street to Petersen's boardinghouse.
(b) Across the street to Laura Keene's house.
(c) Across the street to the Sewards' home.
(d) Across the street to a restaurant's kitchen.

7. When Lewis Powell rang the bell at William Seward's house, what lie did he tell in order to gain entry?
(a) That he had a telegram addressed to William Seward.
(b) That he wanted an autograph from William Seward.
(c) That he was a messenger delivering medicine to William Seward.
(d) That he was delivering the Sewards' grocery order.

8. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?
(a) The Lincoln monument.
(b) The Capitol dome.
(c) The Smithsonian Museum.
(d) The Washington monument.

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

10. What two items did John Wilkes Booth retrieve from Mary Sarratt's boardinghouse on the night of the assassination attempts?
(a) A map and a compass.
(b) Binoculars and a gun.
(c) A gun and a knife.
(d) A knife and a horse.

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

12. 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?
(a) He knew it would be too difficult to escape from the Executive Mansion alive.
(b) He was too scared to use so brazen a method.
(c) He did not see any honor in shooting a man within his own home.
(d) He wanted the dramatic setting of a theater.

13. 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 enact the plot during daylight hours.
(b) He did not want to have to clean up any mess.
(c) He did not want to kill anybody himself.
(d) He did not want to drive the carriage.

14. What tool did Dr. Charles Leale use to remove the blood clot from Abraham Lincoln's head in order to relieve pressure on his brain?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A pocketknife.
(c) A toothpick.
(d) His fingers.

15. Who asked Dr. Charles Leale to treat him first, before the doctor tended to Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Colonel Murray.
(b) Captain Stargazer.
(c) Major Rathbone.
(d) Sergeant Robinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the source of Mary Todd Lincoln's emotional disturbance in the three years previous to Lincoln's inauguration?

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

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

4. Who sent a letter to the proprietors of the Ford Theater announcing the Lincolns' intention to attend the play at the theater that night?

5. What bridge was the only way out of Washington D.C. and into Maryland?

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