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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) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 21.
(d) 11.

2. Who was the photographer who had both photographed Abraham Lincoln many times during Lincoln's life and was responsible for photographing the crime scene after Lincoln's assassination?
(a) John Surratt.
(b) Matthew Brady.
(c) Lewis Powell.
(d) Laura Keene.

3. 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 angrily told Booth to leave his farm immediately.
(b) He shot Booth in the leg.
(c) He sent out smoke signals to the cavalry about Booth's whereabouts.
(d) He threatened Booth with a knife.

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 Petersen's boardinghouse.
(c) Across the street to the Sewards' home.
(d) Across the street to Laura Keene's house.

5. Where did Lewis Powell sleep on the two nights subsequent to the events at William Seward's house?
(a) In his carriage.
(b) Under the Navy Yard Bridge.
(c) In a tree.
(d) In Mary Surratt's boardinghouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who answered the door when Lewis Powell rang the doorbell at William Seward's house?

2. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?

3. 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?

4. What joke did George Atzerodt make that caused a guest at the midday meal to report him to the authorities?

5. What sound did John Wilkes Booth hear during Thomas Jones' visit to the forest hideout that terrified him?

(see the answer key)

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