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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. What words did one audience member report hearing John Wilkes Booth speak as he ran from the stage toward the wings?
(a) "I will be famous."
(b) "He is dead."
(c) "At last, freedom."
(d) "I have done it."

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

3. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?
(a) The explosion of the Union Railroad.
(b) The robbery of Fort Knox.
(c) The assassination of Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) The kidnapping of Lincoln and the holding of his person as a hostage for the Confederacy.

4. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?
(a) The theater's security guard.
(b) The Lincolns' servant.
(c) The head of the Secret Service.
(d) The Rathbones' servant.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the night of the Torchlight Parade, who scooped up Abraham Lincoln's speech pages as he finished them and dropped them to the floor?

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

4. What had John Wilkes Booth hidden along the carpet earlier in the day that he then used to barricade the door to the Presidential box behind him?

5. What color uniforms did Southern soldiers wear during the Civil War?

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