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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface & Chapters I & II.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) Major Rathbone and his fiancee.
(b) General Grant and his wife.
(c) William Seward and his wife.
(d) Dr. Charles Leale and his wife.

3. How long would it have taken John Wilkes Booth to reload if he had missed the fatal shot to Lincoln's head?
(a) 2 minutes.
(b) 5 seconds.
(c) 40 seconds.
(d) 20 seconds.

4. How many casualties did the Civil War result in?
(a) One million.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 600,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?

2. What was the ultimate goal of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' plan to assassinate the Union government's top leaders?

3. On what date did Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederate States of America, fall to Union forces?

4. What color uniforms did Northern soldiers wear during the Civil War?

5. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?

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