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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the ultimate goal of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' plan to assassinate the Union government's top leaders?
(a) To install Confederate leaders in the place of the dead Union leaders the moment they were gone.
(b) To be awarded a ransom.
(c) To persuade General Lee to revoke his surrender.
(d) To incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union.

2. What bridge was the only way out of Washington D.C. and into Maryland?
(a) Washington Bridge.
(b) Yankeetown Bridge.
(c) Navy Yard Bridge.
(d) Philadelphia Bridge.

3. Who was the only other person in William Seward's bedroom besides William Seward and Fanny Seward?
(a) Sergeant Robinson, who was serving as a nurse to William Seward.
(b) Major Rathbone, who was guarding William Seward.
(c) Ashton Lovelier, William Seward's main doctor.
(d) Frederick Seward, who was helping Fanny to nurse their father William Seward.

4. When Major Rathbone tried to stop John Wilkes Booth after Booth had shot Lincoln, what wound did Booth inflict on Rathbone?
(a) He stabbed him in the leg.
(b) He punched him in the nose.
(c) He threw him off the balcony, breaking his nose.
(d) He stabbed him in the arm.

5. What two reasons does James L. Swanson cite for an autopsy having been performed on Abraham Lincoln, though it was clear what had caused his death?
(a) The doctors wanted the bullet and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.
(b) The doctors wanted to study the effects of epilepsy and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.
(c) The doctors had to perform an autopsy by law since it had been a homicide and they wanted the bullet.
(d) The doctors were paid by opportunists to perform the autopsy and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Wilkes Booth first met Thomas Jones, what did John Wilkes Booth say about his own possible capture?

2. Who was the subject of the incriminating photograph the soldiers find behind a picture frame in Mary Surratt's boarding house?

3. What action did Dr. Samuel Mudd take when he realized that eventually soldiers or detectives would discover that John Wilkes Booth and David Herold had been at his farm after the assassination?

4. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?

5. How did Captain Samuel Cox feel when he suspected his summons might be connected to the assassination plots?

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