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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XII-XIV & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

3. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?
(a) The kidnapping of Lincoln and the holding of his person as a hostage for the Confederacy.
(b) The explosion of the Union Railroad.
(c) The assassination of Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) The robbery of Fort Knox.

4. Where in John Wilkes Booth's room at the National Hotel did investigators find a letter outlining the plot against the government?
(a) In the flue of the fireplace.
(b) In his dresser drawer.
(c) Under his mattress.
(d) In his trunk.

5. Who became President of the United States upon Abraham Lincoln's death?
(a) George Atzerodt.
(b) Salmon Chase.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) William Seward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confronted Lewis Powell at the top of the stairs on the second floor of William Seward's house?

2. Who shot John Wilkes Booth?

3. Where did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold go once they secured a wagon, a team of horses, and a driver?

4. How many miles away was the shore of Virginia from the place that John Wilkes Booth and David Herold put the boat into the water?

5. For what losses did Richard H. Garrett sue the U. S. government?

(see the answer key)

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