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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XII-XIV & Epilogue.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many stories did William Seward's house have, making Lewis Powell's task of finding him difficult?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.
2. When Major Rathbone tried to stop John Wilkes Booth after Booth had shot Lincoln, what wound did Booth inflict on Rathbone?
(a) He punched him in the nose.
(b) He threw him off the balcony, breaking his nose.
(c) He stabbed him in the leg.
(d) He stabbed him in the arm.
3. How much did the U.S. government agree to pay Richard H. Garrett for his losses?
(a) $300.
(b) Nothing.
(c) $100.
(d) $1,000.
4. What did the actress Laura Keene use as a passport into the President's box at Ford's Theater where Abraham Lincoln lay dying?
(a) A pile of clean sheets.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A pitcher of water.
(d) A pillow.
5. What did David Herold say was a condition of helping Lewis Powell with the plot to assassinate William Seward?
(a) He did not want to enact the plot during daylight hours.
(b) He did not want to have to clean up any mess.
(c) He did not want to kill anybody himself.
(d) He did not want to drive the carriage.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who accompanied Reverend Gurley when it was time to tell Mary Todd Lincoln that her husband Abraham Lincoln had died?
2. Where in John Wilkes Booth's room at the National Hotel did investigators find a letter outlining the plot against the government?
3. What weapons did Lewis Powell bring to William Seward's house, intending to kill him?
4. In addition to food, what other items did Thomas Jones bring to John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their forest hiding place, much to John Wilkes Booth's delight?
5. When Secretary of War Edwin Stanton realized that he could not continue with the manhunt for the assassins since he had so many other duties to take care of, to whom does he delegate the manhunt responsibility?
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