View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title did the day of Abraham Lincoln's death come to be called?
(a) Black Palm Sunday.
(b) Black Easter.
(c) Black Sunday.
(d) Black Good Friday.

2. Whose house did George Atzerodt visit for a midday meal late on Easter morning?
(a) Dr. Samuel Mudd.
(b) Captain Samuel Cox.
(c) John Surratt.
(d) Hezekiah Metz.

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

4. What was the ultimate goal of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' plan to assassinate the Union government's top leaders?
(a) To incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union.
(b) To persuade General Lee to revoke his surrender.
(c) To install Confederate leaders in the place of the dead Union leaders the moment they were gone.
(d) To be awarded a ransom.

5. What color were the horses that drew the carriage carrying Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the funeral procession?
(a) White.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Tan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they had finally cornered Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was NOT one course of action taken by the Sixteenth New York Cavalry?

2. 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?

3. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?

4. Who accompanied Reverend Gurley when it was time to tell Mary Todd Lincoln that her husband Abraham Lincoln had died?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 378 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample