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

2. What color uniforms did Northern soldiers wear during the Civil War?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

3. What wound did Lewis Powell successfully inflict upon William Seward, though he did not succeed in killing him?
(a) He shot William Seward's ear.
(b) He cut a deep wound in William Seward's face.
(c) He cut a deep wound in William Seward's arm.
(d) He shot William Seward in the leg.

4. Where was Abraham Lincoln taken after he was moved from Ford's Theater?
(a) Across the street to a restaurant's kitchen.
(b) Across the street to the Sewards' home.
(c) Across the street to Laura Keene's house.
(d) Across the street to Petersen's boardinghouse.

5. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?
(a) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) General Robert E. Lee.
(d) Secretary of State William Seward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What noise finally led David Herold to flee the scene in the getaway carriage before Lewis Powell had emerged from the house?

2. What was the title of the play during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

3. Where in John Wilkes Booth's room at the National Hotel did investigators find a letter outlining the plot against the government?

4. Worried that Lewis Powell or other assassins might return to the house, what action did Fanny Seward take throughout the night after the attack?

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

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