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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) A two-note-whistle.
(b) The hoot of an owl.
(c) A three-note whistle.
(d) A five-note whistle.

2. 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?
(a) Lewis Powell had not gotten away and had been immediately imprisoned.
(b) They were outdated by more than a week, so they did not mention the assassination attempt at all.
(c) The newspapers had printed the article about the assassination plot that Lewis Powell had sent to them.
(d) Lewis Powell had attacked not only William Seward, but his sons, his daughter, and his nurse.

3. Who ordered that Mary Todd Lincoln be removed from Abraham Lincoln's bedside and proclaimed that she would not be allowed in again?
(a) Edwin Stanton.
(b) Tad Lincoln.
(c) Frederick Seward.
(d) Fanny Seward.

4. What two items did John Wilkes Booth retrieve from Mary Sarratt's boardinghouse on the night of the assassination attempts?
(a) A map and a compass.
(b) A gun and a knife.
(c) Binoculars and a gun.
(d) A knife and a horse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words did one audience member report hearing John Wilkes Booth speak as he ran from the stage toward the wings?

2. What literary device is James L. Swanson using when he refers to John Wilkes Booth's passion for lost causes?

3. Where in John Wilkes Booth's room at the National Hotel did investigators find a letter outlining the plot against the government?

4. When John Wilkes Booth became terrified at the sounds he heard during Thomas Jones' visit to the forest hideout, what is NOT one reason for his decision to hunker down and hope for the best?

5. Who shot John Wilkes Booth?

(see the answer key)

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