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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 monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?
(a) The Smithsonian Museum.
(b) The Washington monument.
(c) The Lincoln monument.
(d) The Capitol dome.

2. Though Thomas Jones refused to accept all of the money that John Wilkes Booth offered to him, he did take enough to cover the cost of the getaway boat. How much money did he accept?
(a) $58.
(b) $18.
(c) $38.
(d) $23.

3. Though it would have been easy for John Wilkes Booth to gain an audience with President Lincoln within the Executive Mansion due to Booth's acting fame, why did he not take that action?
(a) He knew it would be too difficult to escape from the Executive Mansion alive.
(b) He did not see any honor in shooting a man within his own home.
(c) He was too scared to use so brazen a method.
(d) He wanted the dramatic setting of a theater.

4. What did John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt do when their Confederate soldier friends said the Union cavalry was approaching the Garretts' farm?
(a) They took John Garrett hostage.
(b) They hid in the attic of the farmhouse.
(c) They ran into the woods behind the farm and hid.
(d) They stood on the porch with their guns raised.

5. What joke did George Atzerodt make that caused a guest at the midday meal to report him to the authorities?
(a) He joked that he admired John Wilkes Booth.
(b) He joked that he had been friends with David Herold.
(c) He joked that he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
(d) He joked that he had a plan to assassinate newly-appointed President Andrew Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many casualties did the Civil War result in?

2. How much money did Edwin Stanton offer to anyone who could bring to justice Abraham Lincoln's killers?

3. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?

4. What lie did Dr. Samuel Mudd tell the soldiers in an attempt to lead them on a wild goose chase and throw them off the trail of John Wilkes Booth?

5. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?

(see the answer key)

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