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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. On what date did Abraham Lincoln's funeral take place?
(a) April 30, 1865.
(b) April 19, 1865.
(c) April 14, 1865.
(d) April 1, 1865.

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

3. Where were citizens permitted to view Abraham Lincoln's open casket?
(a) In the Oval Office of the Executive Mansion.
(b) In the Petersen Boarding House.
(c) In the courtyard of the Executive Mansion.
(d) Under the great dome inside the Capitol Building.

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

5. In what year was Dr. Samuel Mudd's prison sentence commuted?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1866.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the trial last for those who were eventually hanged?

2. On what did Lieutenant Doherty lay John Wilkes Booth's dead body upon his death?

3. When John Wilkes Booth became agitated upon seeing riders pass the Garretts' farm, whom did he ask to retrieve his pistols and gun belt?

4. What happened to the Ford Theater as a result of its purported association with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

5. How was Abraham Lincoln's body transported to Springfield after his funeral?

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