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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What words did one audience member report hearing John Wilkes Booth speak as he ran from the stage toward the wings?
(a) "I will be famous."
(b) "He is dead."
(c) "I have done it."
(d) "At last, freedom."

2. On what date did Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederate States of America, fall to Union forces?
(a) April 3, 1870.
(b) April 3, 1865.
(c) April 3, 1863.
(d) April 3, 1866.

3. What had John Wilkes Booth hidden along the carpet earlier in the day that he then used to barricade the door to the Presidential box behind him?
(a) A music stand.
(b) A nightstick.
(c) A broom.
(d) A conductor's baton.

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

5. What bridge was the only way out of Washington D.C. and into Maryland?
(a) Philadelphia Bridge.
(b) Washington Bridge.
(c) Yankeetown Bridge.
(d) Navy Yard Bridge.

6. 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) Fanny Seward.
(c) Edwin Stanton.
(d) Frederick Seward.

7. What was the source of Mary Todd Lincoln's emotional disturbance in the three years previous to Lincoln's inauguration?
(a) The death of Abraham Lincoln's father.
(b) The death of the Lincolns' son Willie.
(c) The death of Mary Todd Lincoln's sister Meredith.
(d) The death of Mary Todd Lincoln's mother.

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

9. What query did Laura Keene make of Dr. Charles Leale after she gained entry to the President's box where Lincoln lay dying?
(a) She asked if she could cut a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair.
(b) She asked if she could cradle Abraham Lincoln's head in her lap.
(c) She asked if she could gather some of Abraham Lincoln's blood.
(d) She asked if she could have Abraham Lincoln's boots.

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

11. What was the ultimate goal of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' plan to assassinate the Union government's top leaders?
(a) To persuade General Lee to revoke his surrender.
(b) To incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union.
(c) To install Confederate leaders in the place of the dead Union leaders the moment they were gone.
(d) To be awarded a ransom.

12. Who was the only actor on stage when Booth made his leap from the balcony?
(a) Harry Hawk.
(b) Fanny Seward.
(c) Charles Leale.
(d) Clara Harris.

13. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?
(a) The explosion of the Union Railroad.
(b) The robbery of Fort Knox.
(c) The kidnapping of Lincoln and the holding of his person as a hostage for the Confederacy.
(d) The assassination of Mary Todd Lincoln.

14. 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) Delaware.
(b) On the Potomac River.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lewis Powell carry with him to William Sewards' door in order to make his lie more believable?

2. What reason did Dr. Charles Leale give for the impossibility of taking Abraham Lincoln to the White House after he was shot?

3. What color uniforms did Northern soldiers wear during the Civil War?

4. Who held John Wilkes Booth's horse in the alley behind the theater, unknowingly help him to keep his escape route accessible?

5. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?

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