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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the subject of the photographs John Wilkes Booth took with him the night of the assassination?
(a) His children.
(b) The Confederate flag.
(c) His mother.
(d) His five favorite girlfriends.

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

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

4. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?
(a) 901.
(b) 501.
(c) 701.
(d) 601.

5. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 2/3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wound did Lewis Powell successfully inflict upon William Seward, though he did not succeed in killing him?

2. Though several couples declined the Lincolns' invitation to attend the play, one couple did accept. Who accompanied the Lincolns to the play on the night of Lincoln's assassination?

3. How many slaves had Dr. Samuel Mudd owned before The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted by Abraham Lincoln?

4. 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?

5. Where were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse located at which John Wilkes Booth had hidden weapons and supplies to be retrieved after his murder of Abraham Lincoln?

(see the answer key)

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