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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 tracheotomy tube.
(c) A Nelaton probe.
(d) A cauterizing gun.

2. 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's ear.
(d) He shot William Seward in the leg.

3. What was the title of the play during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) The Importance of Being Earnest.
(c) Our American Cousin.
(d) Our Town.

4. How many slaves had Dr. Samuel Mudd owned before The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted by Abraham Lincoln?
(a) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 11.
(d) 21.

5. 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 overthrow the Union government and install Confederate leaders instead.
(b) The plot to kidnap William Seward.
(c) The plot to assassinate Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) The plot to kidnap the president.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon did John Wilkes Booth ultimately use to kill Abraham Lincoln?

2. On the night of the Torchlight Parade, who scooped up Abraham Lincoln's speech pages as he finished them and dropped them to the floor?

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

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

5. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Frederick Seward injured during Lewis Powell's attempt to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward?

2. What were the reasons that Dr. Charles Leale wanted to move Abraham Lincoln from the theater, even though he had just proclaimed his wounds sure to be fatal?

3. What was the main goal of the plot to assassinate the Union's top governmental leaders all in one night?

4. Since John Wilkes Booth could have easily gained an audience with President Abraham Lincoln in the Executive Mansion using his famous face, why did he not just assassinate him in such a meeting?

5. How did John Wilkes Booth's knowledge of Ford's Theater facilitate his assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

6. How does James L. Swanson characterize the personality of the actress Laura Keene, who was present at the scene of John Wilkes Booth's shooting of Abraham Lincoln.

7. How did the North celebrate when Richmond, Virginia fell to Union forces on April 3, 1865?

8. What methods does James L. Swanson use to convey the chaotic nature of the scene within Ford's Theater after John Wilkes Booth had escaped?

9. What danger to Lewis Powell's assassination plot lurked in William Seward's room of which Lewis Powell was unaware?

10. In the scene of Abraham Lincoln being moved from the theater, how does James L. Swanson get across the message of how damaging people's morbid curiosity can be?

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