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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 drank in the hotel lobby.
(d) He threw his revolver out of the hotel window.

4. Who was the only audience member at Ford's Theater the night of the assassination to chase after John Wilkes Booth after the shooting?
(a) Joseph Stewart.
(b) Laura Keene.
(c) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) Major Rathbone.

5. How long would it have taken John Wilkes Booth to reload if he had missed the fatal shot to Lincoln's head?
(a) 2 minutes.
(b) 5 seconds.
(c) 20 seconds.
(d) 40 seconds.

6. 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 face.
(b) He shot William Seward's ear.
(c) He cut a deep wound in William Seward's arm.
(d) He shot William Seward in the leg.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?
(a) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) General Robert E. Lee.
(c) Secretary of State William Seward.
(d) First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

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

14. What does the word secede mean?
(a) To attack.
(b) To be superior to.
(c) To separate.
(d) To annihilate.

15. After John Wilkes Booth crossed the bridge, he turned to look for his co-conspirators. Whom did he see?
(a) David Herold and George Atzerodt.
(b) Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt.
(c) David Herold and Lewis Powell.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What weapons did Lewis Powell bring to William Seward's house, intending to kill him?

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

5. 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?

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