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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters III-V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though it would have been easy for John Wilkes Booth to gain an audience with President Lincoln within the Executive Mansion due to Booth's acting fame, why did he not take that action?
(a) He was too scared to use so brazen a method.
(b) He wanted the dramatic setting of a theater.
(c) He did not see any honor in shooting a man within his own home.
(d) He knew it would be too difficult to escape from the Executive Mansion alive.

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

3. Who held John Wilkes Booth's horse in the alley behind the theater, unknowingly help him to keep his escape route accessible?
(a) John Peanut.
(b) Edman Spangler.
(c) Major Rathbone.
(d) Dr. Charles Leale.

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 his dresser drawer.
(b) Under his mattress.
(c) In the flue of the fireplace.
(d) In his trunk.

5. How old was William Seward's daughter Fanny on the night of the assassination attempt?
(a) 18.
(b) 13.
(c) 16.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?

2. Who ordered that Mary Todd Lincoln be removed from Abraham Lincoln's bedside and proclaimed that she would not be allowed in again?

3. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?

4. How long would it have taken John Wilkes Booth to reload if he had missed the fatal shot to Lincoln's head?

5. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?

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