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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What reason did Dr. Charles Leale give for the impossibility of taking Abraham Lincoln to the White House after he was shot?
2. Who answered the door when Lewis Powell rang the doorbell at William Seward's house?
3. What two items did John Wilkes Booth retrieve from Mary Sarratt's boardinghouse on the night of the assassination attempts?
4. What color uniforms did Southern soldiers wear during the Civil War?
5. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are two themes touched upon within Abraham Lincoln's inauguration day speech of 1865?
2. In what ways is Lewis Powell portrayed as a pathetic character after his attempt to take William Seward's life?
3. What danger to Lewis Powell's assassination plot lurked in William Seward's room of which Lewis Powell was unaware?
4. Over what issues was the American Civil War fought?
5. What was the main goal of the plot to assassinate the Union's top governmental leaders all in one night?
6. 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.
7. How did John Wilkes Booth's knowledge of Ford's Theater facilitate his assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. How did the North celebrate when Richmond, Virginia fell to Union forces on April 3, 1865?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the theme of crafted performance portrayed within the book? Examine James L. Swanson's treatment of actors and their professions, the antagonist's acting career, and the theme of appearance versus reality throughout the novel. Support your points with concrete details from the text.
Essay Topic 2
How does the author use sensory details in order to paint a vivid portrait of the historical events he depicts within the novel? Discuss at least two scenes that include extensive use of sensory details and pull quotes from these scenes to support your claim.
Essay Topic 3
How is the literary device of foreshadowing used to highlight coming events within the story of Chasing Lincoln's Killer? Provide an ample number of quotes from the book in order to prove your claims.
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