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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. Who sent a letter to the proprietors of the Ford Theater announcing the Lincolns' intention to attend the play at the theater that night?
(a) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) John Wilkes Booth.
(d) William Seward.

2. What color uniforms did Southern soldiers wear during the Civil War?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

3. What fraction of the casualties during the Civil War died due to disease?
(a) 2/3.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 1/3.

4. Though it would have been easy for John Wilkes Booth to gain an audience with President Lincoln within the Executive Mansion due to Booth's acting fame, why did he not take that action?
(a) He knew it would be too difficult to escape from the Executive Mansion alive.
(b) He was too scared to use so brazen a method.
(c) He did not see any honor in shooting a man within his own home.
(d) He wanted the dramatic setting of a theater.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What injury did John Wilkes Booth sustain in his leap from the Presidential box to the theater stage?

3. Who held John Wilkes Booth's horse in the alley behind the theater, unknowingly help him to keep his escape route accessible?

4. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?

5. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?

(see the answer key)

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