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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 the night of the Torchlight Parade, who scooped up Abraham Lincoln's speech pages as he finished them and dropped them to the floor?
(a) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Lincoln's son Tad.
(c) William Seward's daughter.
(d) Lincoln's wife Mary Todd.

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 barricaded the door of her father's room.
(b) She stockpiled firearms inside her father's room.
(c) She searched the house.
(d) She kept candles burning in every room.

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

4. How many stories did William Seward's house have, making Lewis Powell's task of finding him difficult?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. Who ordered that Mary Todd Lincoln be removed from Abraham Lincoln's bedside and proclaimed that she would not be allowed in again?
(a) Fanny Seward.
(b) Tad Lincoln.
(c) Frederick Seward.
(d) Edwin Stanton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?

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

3. 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?

4. Who was the only audience member at Ford's Theater the night of the assassination to chase after John Wilkes Booth after the shooting?

5. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does James L. Swanson create suspense in the scene when Lewis Powell attempts to assassinate William Seward?

2. 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)

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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