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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 Dr. Samuel Mudd did not know about John Wilkes Booth's recent plan to assassinate the President, of what previous abandoned plot was Mudd aware?
(a) The plot to overthrow the Union government and install Confederate leaders instead.
(b) The plot to kidnap the president.
(c) The plot to assassinate Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) The plot to kidnap William Seward.

2. On the night of April 11th at the Torchlight Parade, what did Lincoln say in his speech regarding African-Americans?
(a) That they should each be granted 40 acres and a mule.
(b) That they had waited too long to be freed from slavery.
(c) That they should be granted the right to vote.
(d) That they should be free to marry whomever they chose, regardless of race.

3. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?
(a) Slavery forever.
(b) The South has won.
(c) The South is avenged.
(d) Long live the Confederacy.

4. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?
(a) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) General Robert E. Lee.
(d) Secretary of State William Seward.

5. When Lewis Powell rang the bell at William Seward's house, what lie did he tell in order to gain entry?
(a) That he had a telegram addressed to William Seward.
(b) That he wanted an autograph from William Seward.
(c) That he was delivering the Sewards' grocery order.
(d) That he was a messenger delivering medicine to William Seward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?

2. 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?

3. What weapon did John Wilkes Booth ultimately use to kill Abraham Lincoln?

4. What was Dr. Samuel Mudd's diagnosis once he examined John Wilkes Booth's injured leg?

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

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