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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 action did Dr. Samuel Mudd take when he realized that eventually soldiers or detectives would discover that John Wilkes Booth and David Herold had been at his farm after the assassination?
(a) He buried the guns and knives left behind by the assassins.
(b) He sent his children to hide in Europe until any suspicion of the family had passed.
(c) He fled to Canada.
(d) He sent his cousin to alert the authorities about the visit and to clear his name in the process.

2. 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 blanket.
(b) A pillow.
(c) A pitcher of water.
(d) A pile of clean sheets.

3. 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 had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
(b) He joked that he had been friends with David Herold.
(c) He joked that he had a plan to assassinate newly-appointed President Andrew Johnson.
(d) He joked that he admired John Wilkes Booth.

4. What did Lewis Powell carry with him to William Sewards' door in order to make his lie more believable?
(a) A bag of groceries.
(b) An autograph book and a pen.
(c) A small package wrapped in paper and tied with string.
(d) A telegram.

5. Who asked Dr. Charles Leale to treat him first, before the doctor tended to Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Major Rathbone.
(b) Captain Stargazer.
(c) Sergeant Robinson.
(d) Colonel Murray.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Captain Samuel Cox feel when he suspected his summons might be connected to the assassination plots?

3. What sound did John Wilkes Booth hear during Thomas Jones' visit to the forest hideout that terrified him?

4. Whose house did George Atzerodt visit for a midday meal late on Easter morning?

5. Before he fled to Europe to escape capture, where did John Surratt go to hide when he learned of Abraham Lincoln's assassination?

(see the answer key)

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