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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 rule was in place about the bridge that John Wilkes Booth intended to cross on his escape into Maryland?
(a) Anyone crossing the bridge had to pay a toll.
(b) No one was allowed to cross the bridge after dark.
(c) Any crossing the bridge had to dismount his horse and walk his horse over the bridge.
(d) No one was allowed to take a horse over the bridge.

2. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?
(a) 601.
(b) 701.
(c) 501.
(d) 901.

3. On the night of April 11th at the Torchlight Parade, what did Lincoln say in his speech regarding African-Americans?
(a) That they should be granted the right to vote.
(b) That they should be free to marry whomever they chose, regardless of race.
(c) That they had waited too long to be freed from slavery.
(d) That they should each be granted 40 acres and a mule.

4. What does the word secede mean?
(a) To be superior to.
(b) To separate.
(c) To annihilate.
(d) To attack.

5. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?
(a) Personification.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Simile.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. The plot to assassinate the top Union leaders included all but which of the following people?

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

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

4. What query did Laura Keene make of Dr. Charles Leale after she gained entry to the President's box where Lincoln lay dying?

5. Though it would have been easy for John Wilkes Booth to gain an audience with President Lincoln within the Executive Mansion due to Booth's acting fame, why did he not take that action?

(see the answer key)

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