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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 a restaurant's kitchen.
(c) Across the street to Laura Keene's house.
(d) Across the street to the Sewards' home.

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

4. Who ordered that Mary Todd Lincoln be removed from Abraham Lincoln's bedside and proclaimed that she would not be allowed in again?
(a) Tad Lincoln.
(b) Frederick Seward.
(c) Edwin Stanton.
(d) Fanny Seward.

5. Where in John Wilkes Booth's room at the National Hotel did investigators find a letter outlining the plot against the government?
(a) In the flue of the fireplace.
(b) In his dresser drawer.
(c) Under his mattress.
(d) In his trunk.

6. What color uniforms did Southern soldiers wear during the Civil War?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

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

8. 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) John Peanut.
(c) Dr. Charles Leale.
(d) Major Rathbone.

9. Though Dr. Samuel Mudd did not know about John Wilkes Booth's recent plan to assassinate the President, of what previous abandoned plot was Mudd aware?
(a) The plot to kidnap the president.
(b) The plot to assassinate Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) The plot to kidnap William Seward.
(d) The plot to overthrow the Union government and install Confederate leaders instead.

10. Who was the only other person in William Seward's bedroom besides William Seward and Fanny Seward?
(a) Major Rathbone, who was guarding William Seward.
(b) Sergeant Robinson, who was serving as a nurse to William Seward.
(c) Frederick Seward, who was helping Fanny to nurse their father William Seward.
(d) Ashton Lovelier, William Seward's main doctor.

11. 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 pocketknife.
(b) His fingers.
(c) A toothpick.
(d) A scalpel.

12. When Major Rathbone tried to stop John Wilkes Booth after Booth had shot Lincoln, what wound did Booth inflict on Rathbone?
(a) He stabbed him in the leg.
(b) He threw him off the balcony, breaking his nose.
(c) He stabbed him in the arm.
(d) He punched him in the nose.

13. What did George Atzerodt do just before he decided to abandon his plan to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson?
(a) He left a note on Andrew Johnson's door.
(b) He knocked on Andrew Johnson's door.
(c) He threw his revolver out of the hotel window.
(d) He drank in the hotel lobby.

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

15. Where were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse located at which John Wilkes Booth had hidden weapons and supplies to be retrieved after his murder of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Maryland.
(d) On the Potomac River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What query did Laura Keene make of Dr. Charles Leale after she gained entry to the President's box where Lincoln lay dying?

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

3. Who answered the door when Lewis Powell rang the doorbell at William Seward's house?

4. How far away from Washington D.C. were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse?

5. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?

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