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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 black star on her forehead.
(b) A white circle on her nose.
(c) A white star on her forehead.
(d) A white diamond on her flank.

2. What two items did John Wilkes Booth retrieve from Mary Sarratt's boardinghouse on the night of the assassination attempts?
(a) Binoculars and a gun.
(b) A map and a compass.
(c) A gun and a knife.
(d) A knife and a horse.

3. What did George Atzerodt do just before he decided to abandon his plan to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson?
(a) He drank in the hotel lobby.
(b) He left a note on Andrew Johnson's door.
(c) He knocked on Andrew Johnson's door.
(d) He threw his revolver out of the hotel window.

4. Who was the subject of the incriminating photograph the soldiers find behind a picture frame in Mary Surratt's boarding house?
(a) General Robert E. Lee.
(b) John Wilkes Booth.
(c) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Laura Keene.

5. Where was Abraham Lincoln taken after he was moved from Ford's Theater?
(a) Across the street to Laura Keene's house.
(b) Across the street to the Sewards' home.
(c) Across the street to Petersen's boardinghouse.
(d) Across the street to a restaurant's kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Wilkes Booth became terrified at the sounds he heard during Thomas Jones' visit to the forest hideout, what is NOT one reason for his decision to hunker down and hope for the best?

2. What happened to the Ford Theater as a result of its purported association with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

3. When John Garrett came back from a neighboring farm with news about the new reward amount offered for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was the new sum?

4. Who was the photographer who had both photographed Abraham Lincoln many times during Lincoln's life and was responsible for photographing the crime scene after Lincoln's assassination?

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

(see the answer key)

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