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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. 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, 1870.
(c) April 3, 1866.
(d) April 3, 1865.

2. Who held John Wilkes Booth's horse in the alley behind the theater, unknowingly help him to keep his escape route accessible?
(a) Major Rathbone.
(b) Dr. Charles Leale.
(c) John Peanut.
(d) Edman Spangler.

3. 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) 20 seconds.
(c) 40 seconds.
(d) 5 seconds.

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

5. Who sent a letter to the proprietors of the Ford Theater announcing the Lincolns' intention to attend the play at the theater that night?
(a) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(b) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) William Seward.
(d) John Wilkes Booth.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?

4. What was the cause of William Seward's injuries that caused him to be healing in bed when the assassination attempt on his life was made?

5. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was the only audience member in Ford's Theater to chase after John Wilkes Booth and why did no one else follow him?

3. How does James L. Swanson demonstrate Fanny Seward's courage and ferocity within the scene of Lewis Powell's attempt to take her father's life?

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

5. How does James L. Swanson use the words of Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, to foreshadow the coming death of Abraham Lincoln?

6. Over what issues was the American Civil War fought?

7. What is the author's purpose in relating the events of Mary Lincoln Todd's and Abraham Lincoln's afternoon together on the date of the assassination?

8. What is the significance of the photo that was taken at Abraham Lincoln's inauguration and that includes John Wilkes Booth?

9. What action did David Herold take at the scene of William Seward's home that James L. Swanson imagines to have inspired the ire of John Wilkes Booth?

10. What qualities of William Seward's situation caused him to chosen by the assassins as the third target in the assassination plot, in addition to Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson?

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