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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 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?
(a) A fall.
(b) A carriage accident.
(c) A ferris wheel accident.
(d) An arrow wound.

2. Worried that Lewis Powell or other assassins might return to the house, what action did Fanny Seward take throughout the night after the attack?
(a) She stockpiled firearms inside her father's room.
(b) She kept candles burning in every room.
(c) She barricaded the door of her father's room.
(d) She searched the house.

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

4. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?
(a) 901.
(b) 501.
(c) 701.
(d) 601.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are two themes touched upon within Abraham Lincoln's inauguration day speech of 1865?

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

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

6. 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?

7. In what ways is Lewis Powell portrayed as a pathetic character after his attempt to take William Seward's life?

8. What tone does James L. Swanson use in second paragraph of Chapter I when he writes, "The very next day, the tyrant Abraham Lincoln had visited his captive prize and had the nerve to sit behind the desk occupied by the first and last president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis"? (2)

9. 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?

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

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