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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though Dr. Samuel Mudd did not know about John Wilkes Booth's recent plan to assassinate the President, of what previous abandoned plot was Mudd aware?
(a) The plot to assassinate Mary Todd Lincoln.
(b) The plot to kidnap William Seward.
(c) The plot to kidnap the president.
(d) The plot to overthrow the Union government and install Confederate leaders instead.

2. When Dr. Samuel Mudd learned that John Wilkes Booth had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, he did not betray Booth to the soldiers he faced. He did, however, take what action when he returned to his farm where Booth was hiding from the law?
(a) He shot Booth in the leg.
(b) He angrily told Booth to leave his farm immediately.
(c) He sent out smoke signals to the cavalry about Booth's whereabouts.
(d) He threatened Booth with a knife.

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

4. What tool did Dr. Charles Leale use to remove the blood clot from Abraham Lincoln's head in order to relieve pressure on his brain?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A pocketknife.
(c) A toothpick.
(d) His fingers.

5. What was the name of the prison where all of the assassination co-conspirators were sent once captured?
(a) Leavenworth Prison.
(b) Old Capitol Prison.
(c) Sing Sing Prison.
(d) San Quentin Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the authorities searched John Wilkes Booth's room and found a letter explaining the assassination plot, what name was signed at the bottom of the letter?

2. Who sent a letter to the proprietors of the Ford Theater announcing the Lincolns' intention to attend the play at the theater that night?

3. After Thomas Jones had been released from jail in April of 1865, for what purpose did he visit Richmond, Virginia?

4. When Secretary of War Edwin Stanton realized that he could not continue with the manhunt for the assassins since he had so many other duties to take care of, to whom does he delegate the manhunt responsibility?

5. When John Wilkes Booth first met Thomas Jones, what did John Wilkes Booth say about his own possible capture?

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