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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. When Major Rathbone tried to stop John Wilkes Booth after Booth had shot Lincoln, what wound did Booth inflict on Rathbone?
(a) He threw him off the balcony, breaking his nose.
(b) He stabbed him in the arm.
(c) He stabbed him in the leg.
(d) He punched him in the nose.

2. Where were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse located at which John Wilkes Booth had hidden weapons and supplies to be retrieved after his murder of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) On the Potomac River.

3. On what date did Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederate States of America, fall to Union forces?
(a) April 3, 1866.
(b) April 3, 1863.
(c) April 3, 1870.
(d) April 3, 1865.

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

5. What query did Laura Keene make of Dr. Charles Leale after she gained entry to the President's box where Lincoln lay dying?
(a) She asked if she could cradle Abraham Lincoln's head in her lap.
(b) She asked if she could have Abraham Lincoln's boots.
(c) She asked if she could cut a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair.
(d) She asked if she could gather some of Abraham Lincoln's blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. The plot to assassinate the top Union leaders included all but which of the following people?

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 did the actress Laura Keene use as a passport into the President's box at Ford's Theater where Abraham Lincoln lay dying?

4. Who answered the door when Lewis Powell rang the doorbell at William Seward's house?

5. How long did John Wilkes Booth have between finding out about Lincoln's plans to attend the play and his assassination of the President?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. How did Mary Todd Lincoln's letter to the Ford Theater's proprietors unwittingly help Abraham Lincoln's would-be assassins complete their goal?

8. 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?

9. 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)

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

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