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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?
(a) First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
(b) Secretary of State William Seward.
(c) General Robert E. Lee.
(d) General Ulysses S. Grant.

2. On what date did Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederate States of America, fall to Union forces?
(a) April 3, 1870.
(b) April 3, 1863.
(c) April 3, 1866.
(d) April 3, 1865.

3. What happened to the Ford Theater as a result of its purported association with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) It was blown up with dynamite.
(b) It was burned down.
(c) It was shuttered forever and never showed another play.
(d) It was confiscated from the Ford family.

4. When John Garrett came back from a neighboring farm with news about the new reward amount offered for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was the new sum?
(a) $160,000.
(b) $200,000.
(c) $140,000.
(d) $120,000.

5. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?
(a) Slavery forever.
(b) Long live the Confederacy.
(c) The South is avenged.
(d) The South has won.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did David Herold say was a condition of helping Lewis Powell with the plot to assassinate William Seward?

3. What happened when Thomas Jones arrived in Richmond, Virginia in April of 1865 with the intention of completing his intended task?

4. Where was Abraham Lincoln taken after he was moved from Ford's Theater?

5. What did Lewis Powell carry with him to William Sewards' door in order to make his lie more believable?

(see the answer key)

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