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

2. For how many years did the Civil War last?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

3. How many stories did William Seward's house have, making Lewis Powell's task of finding him difficult?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

4. What was the source of Mary Todd Lincoln's emotional disturbance in the three years previous to Lincoln's inauguration?
(a) The death of the Lincolns' son Willie.
(b) The death of Abraham Lincoln's father.
(c) The death of Mary Todd Lincoln's sister Meredith.
(d) The death of Mary Todd Lincoln's mother.

5. What was the subject of Lincoln's dream the night before the assassination, as recorded by Secretary Welles in his diary?
(a) Air.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Earth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?

3. What injury did John Wilkes Booth sustain in his leap from the Presidential box to the theater stage?

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

5. Who sent a letter to the proprietors of the Ford Theater announcing the Lincolns' intention to attend the play at the theater that night?

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