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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) The bumpy ride would jostle his head and kill him.
(b) The doctor would not be able to tend to Abraham Lincoln in transit.
(c) It would take too long to get there.
(d) The crowds outside were already too thick to maneuver a carriage through their number.

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

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

4. On the afternoon on the day of Lincoln's assassination, what plans did Abraham Lincoln reveal to Mary Todd Lincoln about their future after his second term as president was complete?
(a) Moving to San Francisco where he could seek his fortune as a gold miner.
(b) Moving to Chicago where he could return to his law practice.
(c) Moving to New York City where he could return to his medical practice.
(d) Moving to Baltimore where he could return to his woodworking practice.

5. What rule was in place about the bridge that John Wilkes Booth intended to cross on his escape into Maryland?
(a) Anyone crossing the bridge had to pay a toll.
(b) No one was allowed to cross the bridge after dark.
(c) No one was allowed to take a horse over the bridge.
(d) Any crossing the bridge had to dismount his horse and walk his horse over the bridge.

6. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?
(a) Simile.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

7. Who confronted Lewis Powell at the top of the stairs on the second floor of William Seward's house?
(a) Frederick Seward.
(b) Fanny Seward.
(c) Major Rathbone.
(d) John Wilkes Booth.

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

9. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/3.

10. What was the subject of the photographs John Wilkes Booth took with him the night of the assassination?
(a) The Confederate flag.
(b) His children.
(c) His mother.
(d) His five favorite girlfriends.

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

12. What distinctive marking did John Wilkes Booth's horse have on her body?
(a) A white star on her forehead.
(b) A white circle on her nose.
(c) A black star on her forehead.
(d) A white diamond on her flank.

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

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

15. 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 threw his revolver out of the hotel window.
(c) He left a note on Andrew Johnson's door.
(d) He drank in the hotel lobby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the ultimate goal of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' plan to assassinate the Union government's top leaders?

2. What noise finally led David Herold to flee the scene in the getaway carriage before Lewis Powell had emerged from the house?

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

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

5. How long would it have taken John Wilkes Booth to reload if he had missed the fatal shot to Lincoln's head?

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