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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 piece of medical equipment did Dr. Charles Leale send a hospital steward to retrieve so that he could work on Lincoln's brain in hopes of saving him?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A Nelaton probe.
(c) A cauterizing gun.
(d) A tracheotomy tube.

2. Worried that Lewis Powell or other assassins might return to the house, what action did Fanny Seward take throughout the night after the attack?
(a) She barricaded the door of her father's room.
(b) She kept candles burning in every room.
(c) She searched the house.
(d) She stockpiled firearms inside her father's room.

3. Where did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold go once they secured a wagon, a team of horses, and a driver?
(a) Port Oslow.
(b) Port Washington.
(c) Port Conway.
(d) Port Orchard.

4. What was the reason that Captain Samuel Cox told John Wilkes Booth and David Herold not to make a fire in the forest?
(a) Because he said they would build a fireplace on his next visit.
(b) Because the fire might be seen and it would give away their hiding place.
(c) Because it had been a dry spring and they were likely to start a forest fire.
(d) Because the heat of a fire would exacerbate their dehydration.

5. Where was John Surratt finally captured?
(a) Virginia.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Egypt.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What punishment did Boston Corbett earn for his shooting of John Wilkes Booth?

2. Where was John Wilkes Booth's body moved when it was released to his brother?

3. How did the news of John Wilkes Booth's death travel across the country?

4. Who became President of the United States upon Abraham Lincoln's death?

5. What did the actress Laura Keene use as a passport into the President's box at Ford's Theater where Abraham Lincoln lay dying?

(see the answer key)

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