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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 happened to the letter about John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln that he had given to his actor friend in order to have it published in a newspaper?
(a) His actor friend buried it.
(b) His actor friend burned it.
(c) The newspaper decided not to publish it.
(d) It got lost in the mail.

2. 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) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) John Wilkes Booth.
(d) Laura Keene.

3. What noise finally led David Herold to flee the scene in the getaway carriage before Lewis Powell had emerged from the house?
(a) The sound of gunshots.
(b) William Bell running out of the house and screaming.
(c) The sound of barking dogs.
(d) Fanny Seward screaming out of the window into the street.

4. How did Captain Samuel Cox feel when he suspected his summons might be connected to the assassination plots?
(a) Excited.
(b) Reluctant.
(c) Scared.
(d) Envious.

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 a restaurant's kitchen.
(c) Across the street to the Sewards' home.
(d) Across the street to Petersen's boardinghouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John Wilkes Booth wearing when he went into hiding in the pine forest?

2. When John Wilkes Booth became agitated upon seeing riders pass the Garretts' farm, whom did he ask to retrieve his pistols and gun belt?

3. How old was William Seward's daughter Fanny on the night of the assassination attempt?

4. What color were the horses that drew the carriage carrying Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the funeral procession?

5. 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?

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