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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-XI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distinctive marking did John Wilkes Booth's horse have on her body?
(a) A white circle on her nose.
(b) A white diamond on her flank.
(c) A white star on her forehead.
(d) A black star on her forehead.

2. How many nights in total did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold spend in the pine forest before they made the attempt to get to Virginia?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

3. What did the actress Laura Keene use as a passport into the President's box at Ford's Theater where Abraham Lincoln lay dying?
(a) A pillow.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A pitcher of water.
(d) A pile of clean sheets.

4. 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) Washington, D.C.
(c) Delaware.
(d) On the Potomac River.

5. What joke did George Atzerodt make that caused a guest at the midday meal to report him to the authorities?
(a) He joked that he had been friends with David Herold.
(b) He joked that he admired John Wilkes Booth.
(c) He joked that he had a plan to assassinate newly-appointed President Andrew Johnson.
(d) He joked that he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ordered that Mary Todd Lincoln be removed from Abraham Lincoln's bedside and proclaimed that she would not be allowed in again?

2. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?

3. When Secretary of War Edwin Stanton realized that he could not continue with the manhunt for the assassins since he had so many other duties to take care of, to whom does he delegate the manhunt responsibility?

4. When John Wilkes Booth told the Garrett family where he was planning to go next, what town did he mention?

5. What was the cause of William Seward's injuries that caused him to be healing in bed when the assassination attempt on his life was made?

(see the answer key)

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