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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface & Chapters I & II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though several couples declined the Lincolns' invitation to attend the play, one couple did accept. Who accompanied the Lincolns to the play on the night of Lincoln's assassination?
(a) General Grant and his wife.
(b) Dr. Charles Leale and his wife.
(c) William Seward and his wife.
(d) Major Rathbone and his fiancee.

2. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?
(a) The theater's security guard.
(b) The Rathbones' servant.
(c) The head of the Secret Service.
(d) The Lincolns' servant.

3. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?
(a) Slavery forever.
(b) Long live the Confederacy.
(c) The South has won.
(d) The South is avenged.

4. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 2/3.

5. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?
(a) 501.
(b) 901.
(c) 601.
(d) 701.

Short Answer Questions

1. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?

2. 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?

3. What words did one audience member report hearing John Wilkes Booth speak as he ran from the stage toward the wings?

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

5. What was the subject of Lincoln's dream the night before the assassination, as recorded by Secretary Welles in his diary?

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