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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 drive the carriage.
(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 enact the plot during daylight hours.

4. What wound did Lewis Powell successfully inflict upon William Seward, though he did not succeed in killing him?
(a) He cut a deep wound in William Seward's arm.
(b) He cut a deep wound in William Seward's face.
(c) He shot William Seward in the leg.
(d) He shot William Seward's ear.

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

6. 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?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A cauterizing gun.
(c) A Nelaton probe.
(d) A tracheotomy tube.

7. The plot to assassinate the top Union leaders included all but which of the following people?
(a) Department of Justice Head Alistair Sim.
(b) President Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Vice President Andrew Johnson.
(d) Secretary of State William Seward.

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

9. What weapons did Lewis Powell bring to William Seward's house, intending to kill him?
(a) A pistol and a revolver.
(b) A sword and a knife.
(c) A revolver and a knife.
(d) A pistol and a knife.

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

11. 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 conductor's baton.
(b) A nightstick.
(c) A music stand.
(d) A broom.

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

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

14. What injury did John Wilkes Booth sustain in his leap from the Presidential box to the theater stage?
(a) A broken nose.
(b) A broken leg.
(c) A broken ankle.
(d) A broken wrist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the subject of the photographs John Wilkes Booth took with him the night of the assassination?

2. Where in John Wilkes Booth's room at the National Hotel did investigators find a letter outlining the plot against the government?

3. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?

4. What did George Atzerodt do just before he decided to abandon his plan to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson?

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

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