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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface & Chapters I & II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many casualties did the Civil War result in?
(a) 200,000.
(b) One million.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 600,000.

2. Though several couples declined the Lincolns' invitation to attend the play, one couple did accept. Who accompanied the Lincolns to the play on the night of Lincoln's assassination?
(a) General Grant and his wife.
(b) William Seward and his wife.
(c) Major Rathbone and his fiancee.
(d) Dr. Charles Leale and his wife.

3. What does the word secede mean?
(a) To attack.
(b) To separate.
(c) To be superior to.
(d) To annihilate.

4. How many words did Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech of 1865 contain?
(a) 601.
(b) 501.
(c) 701.
(d) 901.

5. What injury did John Wilkes Booth sustain in his leap from the Presidential box to the theater stage?
(a) A broken leg.
(b) A broken wrist.
(c) A broken nose.
(d) A broken ankle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Major Rathbone tried to stop John Wilkes Booth after Booth had shot Lincoln, what wound did Booth inflict on Rathbone?

2. How long would it have taken John Wilkes Booth to reload if he had missed the fatal shot to Lincoln's head?

3. What was the title of the play during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

4. What weapon did John Wilkes Booth ultimately use to kill Abraham Lincoln?

5. The plot to assassinate the top Union leaders included all but which of the following people?

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