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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 long after the end of the manhunt did the government pay out rewards to people who had helped to capture John Wilkes Booth?
(a) A little more than a year.
(b) A little more than six months.
(c) A little more than a month.
(d) A little more than a week.

2. What did George Atzerodt do just before he decided to abandon his plan to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson?
(a) He left a note on Andrew Johnson's door.
(b) He drank in the hotel lobby.
(c) He knocked on Andrew Johnson's door.
(d) He threw his revolver out of the hotel window.

3. On the night of the Torchlight Parade, who scooped up Abraham Lincoln's speech pages as he finished them and dropped them to the floor?
(a) Lincoln's son Tad.
(b) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) William Seward's daughter.
(d) Lincoln's wife Mary Todd.

4. What was the reason that Captain Samuel Cox told John Wilkes Booth and David Herold not to make a fire in the forest?
(a) Because it had been a dry spring and they were likely to start a forest fire.
(b) Because the fire might be seen and it would give away their hiding place.
(c) Because he said they would build a fireplace on his next visit.
(d) Because the heat of a fire would exacerbate their dehydration.

5. What was the highest amount of reward money paid to a single person?
(a) $3,500.
(b) $80,000.
(c) $60,000.
(d) $15,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word secede mean?

2. 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?

3. After Thomas Jones had been released from jail in April of 1865, for what purpose did he visit Richmond, Virginia?

4. What query did Laura Keene make of Dr. Charles Leale after she gained entry to the President's box where Lincoln lay dying?

5. When the Union cavalry divided their forces in order to surround John Wilkes Booth, who headed the two columns?

(see the answer key)

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