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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 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 install Confederate leaders in the place of the dead Union leaders the moment they were gone.
(c) To persuade General Lee to revoke his surrender.
(d) To be awarded a ransom.

2. What state did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold hope to escape into by crossing a major river, since that state's population was full of Confederate sympathizers?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Delaware.
(d) Virginia.

3. What did George Atzerodt do just before he decided to abandon his plan to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson?
(a) He left a note on Andrew Johnson's door.
(b) He drank in the hotel lobby.
(c) He threw his revolver out of the hotel window.
(d) He knocked on Andrew Johnson's door.

4. 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 three-note whistle.
(b) The hoot of an owl.
(c) A five-note whistle.
(d) A two-note-whistle.

5. Who was the only other person in William Seward's bedroom besides William Seward and Fanny Seward?
(a) Sergeant Robinson, who was serving as a nurse to William Seward.
(b) Ashton Lovelier, William Seward's main doctor.
(c) Frederick Seward, who was helping Fanny to nurse their father William Seward.
(d) Major Rathbone, who was guarding William Seward.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Wilkes Booth first met Thomas Jones, what did John Wilkes Booth say about his own possible capture?

2. What was the reason that Captain Samuel Cox told John Wilkes Booth and David Herold not to make a fire in the forest?

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

4. When Lewis Powell rang the bell at William Seward's house, what lie did he tell in order to gain entry?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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