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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-XI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John Wilkes Booth gain shelter for the night at the home of Lucas, the African-American neighbor of Dr. Richard Stuart?
(a) He threatened Mr. Lucas with violence.
(b) He paid Mr. Lucas one hundred dollars.
(c) He told Mr. Lucas that his killing of Abraham Lincoln had been an accident.
(d) He threatened to kill Mr. Lucas's son Charlie.

2. 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) Any crossing the bridge had to dismount his horse and walk his horse over the bridge.
(c) No one was allowed to cross the bridge after dark.
(d) No one was allowed to take a horse over the bridge.

3. Who became President of the United States upon Abraham Lincoln's death?
(a) George Atzerodt.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) William Seward.
(d) Salmon Chase.

4. How many casualties did the Civil War result in?
(a) 400,000.
(b) One million.
(c) 600,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. How did John Wilkes Booth describe his own hands with his last words?
(a) Troublesome.
(b) Inane.
(c) Ineffectual.
(d) Useless.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Thomas Jones brought newspapers to the assassins' hideout in the forest, what about the newspapers' reports on Lewis Powell's attack on William Seward surprised John Wilkes Booth?

2. 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?

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

4. What was John Wilkes Booth wearing when he went into hiding in the pine forest?

5. What wound did Lewis Powell successfully inflict upon William Seward, though he did not succeed in killing him?

(see the answer key)

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