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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many slaves had Dr. Samuel Mudd owned before The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted by Abraham Lincoln?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

2. 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 kidnap the president.
(b) The plot to kidnap William Seward.
(c) The plot to overthrow the Union government and install Confederate leaders instead.
(d) The plot to assassinate Mary Todd Lincoln.

3. Who sent a letter to the proprietors of the Ford Theater announcing the Lincolns' intention to attend the play at the theater that night?
(a) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(b) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) John Wilkes Booth.
(d) William Seward.

4. How old was William Seward's daughter Fanny on the night of the assassination attempt?
(a) 20.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 13.

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?
(a) He wanted the dramatic setting of a theater.
(b) He knew it would be too difficult to escape from the Executive Mansion alive.
(c) He did not see any honor in shooting a man within his own home.
(d) He was too scared to use so brazen a method.

Short Answer Questions

1. What signal did Captain Samuel Cox tell David Herold and John Wilkes Booth that someone they could trust would use as they approached the forest hiding place?

2. What was Dr. Samuel Mudd's diagnosis once he examined John Wilkes Booth's injured leg?

3. What happened to the Ford Theater as a result of its purported association with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

4. What piece of medical equipment did Dr. Charles Leale send a hospital steward to retrieve so that he could work on Lincoln's brain in hopes of saving him?

5. Who held John Wilkes Booth's horse in the alley behind the theater, unknowingly help him to keep his escape route accessible?

(see the answer key)

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