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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 reason did Dr. Charles Leale give for the impossibility of taking Abraham Lincoln to the White House after he was shot?
(a) The doctor would not be able to tend to Abraham Lincoln in transit.
(b) It would take too long to get there.
(c) The crowds outside were already too thick to maneuver a carriage through their number.
(d) The bumpy ride would jostle his head and kill him.

2. When Lewis Powell got outside and found that Herold had fled with the getaway carriage, what did he do?
(a) He took off running down the street.
(b) He rode off down the street on his bicycle.
(c) He jumped on his horse and rode away.
(d) He pushed a passerby out of a carriage and stole it.

3. 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."

4. Where was Abraham Lincoln taken after he was moved from Ford's Theater?
(a) Across the street to Petersen's boardinghouse.
(b) Across the street to a restaurant's kitchen.
(c) Across the street to Laura Keene's house.
(d) Across the street to the Sewards' home.

5. 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) Maryland.
(b) Delaware.
(c) On the Potomac River.
(d) Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was William Seward's daughter Fanny on the night of the assassination attempt?

3. How many stories did William Seward's house have, making Lewis Powell's task of finding him difficult?

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

5. Who was the only actor on stage when Booth made his leap from the balcony?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. 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.

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

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

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 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?

10. 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?

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