We employ multipoint observations of the magnetosphere to present case and statistical studies of the electromagnetic field and plasma response to interplanetary (IP) shocks. On February 27, 2014 the initial encounter of an IP shock with the magnetopause occurred on the early postnoon magnetosphere, consistent with the observed alignment of the shock with the spiral IMF. The dayside equatorial magnetosphere exhibited a dusk-dawn oscillatory electrical field with a period of ~ 330 s and peak to peak amplitudes of ~ 15 mV/m for a period of 30 min. The intensity of electrons in the energy range from 31.5 to 342 KeV responded with periods corresponding to the shock induced ULF electric field waves. The initial electric field perturbation was directed dawnward for this case study. We then perform a statistical study of Ey variations of the electric field and associated plasma drift Vx and Vy flow velocities for 30 magnetospheric events during the passage of interplanetary shocks. The direction of the initial Vx component of plasma flow is tailward at all local times except the nightside magnetosphere, where flows are sunward near the sun-Earth line but antisunward towards dawn and dusk. The observed directions of the azimuthal velocity Vy predominately agree with those expected for the given spiral or orthospiral shock normal orientation.