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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. How many visitors visit the museum in the basement of Ford's Theater each year?
(a) 3 million.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 250,000.

2. What was the name of John Wilkes Booth's sister, whose home detectives raided in an effort to find anything associated with John Wilkes Booth?
(a) Asia Booth Clarke.
(b) India Booth Clarke.
(c) Botswana Booth Clarke.
(d) China Booth Clarke.

3. What lie did Dr. Samuel Mudd tell the soldiers in an attempt to lead them on a wild goose chase and throw them off the trail of John Wilkes Booth?
(a) He claimed the strangers at his farm had asked for directions to a farm to the east.
(b) He claimed the strangers at his farm had asked for directions to a farm to the west.
(c) He claimed the strangers at his farm had asked for directions to a farm to the north.
(d) He claimed the strangers at his farm had asked for directions to a farm to the south.

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

5. 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 should be granted the right to vote.
(c) That they should be free to marry whomever they chose, regardless of race.
(d) That they had waited too long to be freed from slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who held John Wilkes Booth's horse in the alley behind the theater, unknowingly help him to keep his escape route accessible?

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

3. Who was the photographer who had both photographed Abraham Lincoln many times during Lincoln's life and was responsible for photographing the crime scene after Lincoln's assassination?

4. What was the subject of Lincoln's dream the night before the assassination, as recorded by Secretary Welles in his diary?

5. What rule was in place about the bridge that John Wilkes Booth intended to cross on his escape into Maryland?

(see the answer key)

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