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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XII-XIV & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) A Nelaton probe.
(b) A tracheotomy tube.
(c) A cauterizing gun.
(d) A scalpel.

2. What did George Atzerodt do just before he decided to abandon his plan to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson?
(a) He left a note on Andrew Johnson's door.
(b) He knocked on Andrew Johnson's door.
(c) He drank in the hotel lobby.
(d) He threw his revolver out of the hotel window.

3. When Thomas Jones brought newspapers to the assassins' hideout in the forest, what about the newspapers' reports on his shooting of Abraham Lincoln surprised John Wilkes Booth?
(a) They condemned the assassination.
(b) They celebrated the assassination.
(c) They were outdated by more than a week, so they did not mention the assassination at all.
(d) The newspapers had printed the article about the assassination plot that he had sent to them.

4. James L. Swanson has collected books, artifacts, and documents regarding the life and death of Abraham Lincoln since what age?
(a) 10.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

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 to study the effects of epilepsy and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.
(b) The doctors were paid by opportunists to perform the autopsy 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 wanted the bullet and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only person to be punished, of the group who had aided John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt in their escape?

2. Who got paid the most reward money of all the claimants?

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

4. What was the reason that Captain Samuel Cox told John Wilkes Booth and David Herold not to make a fire in the forest?

5. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?

(see the answer key)

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