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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters III-V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the ultimate goal of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' plan to assassinate the Union government's top leaders?
(a) To incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union.
(b) To persuade General Lee to revoke his surrender.
(c) To be awarded a ransom.
(d) To install Confederate leaders in the place of the dead Union leaders the moment they were gone.

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) William Seward and his wife.
(b) Major Rathbone and his fiancee.
(c) Dr. Charles Leale and his wife.
(d) General Grant and his wife.

3. How long did John Wilkes Booth have between finding out about Lincoln's plans to attend the play and his assassination of the President?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 8 hours.

4. What previous act had John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators plotted in 1864 that had never come to fruition?
(a) The kidnapping of Lincoln and the holding of his person as a hostage for the Confederacy.
(b) The robbery of Fort Knox.
(c) The assassination of Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) The explosion of the Union Railroad.

5. What was the role of Charles Forbes, the only man sitting outside of the Lincolns' theater box seat?
(a) The head of the Secret Service.
(b) The Lincolns' servant.
(c) The Rathbones' servant.
(d) The theater's security guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color uniforms did Southern soldiers wear during the Civil War?

2. Though Dr. Samuel Mudd did not know about John Wilkes Booth's recent plan to assassinate the President, of what previous abandoned plot was Mudd aware?

3. After the Petersen boarding house was deemed the temporary War Department headquarters, to whom was the first telegram out of the office addressed?

4. What did David Herold say was a condition of helping Lewis Powell with the plot to assassinate William Seward?

5. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?

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