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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-XI.

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

3. 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?
(a) The plot to kidnap William Seward.
(b) The plot to assassinate Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) The plot to kidnap the president.
(d) The plot to overthrow the Union government and install Confederate leaders instead.

4. 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 sent his children to hide in Europe until any suspicion of the family had passed.
(b) He sent his cousin to alert the authorities about the visit and to clear his name in the process.
(c) He fled to Canada.
(d) He buried the guns and knives left behind by the assassins.

5. What was the name of the fisherman who agreed to ferry John Wilkes Booth and David Herold across the Rappahannock River?
(a) William Rollins.
(b) George Atzerodt.
(c) Charlie Lucas.
(d) George Rollins.

Short Answer Questions

1. After John Wilkes Booth crossed the bridge, he turned to look for his co-conspirators. Whom did he see?

2. What bridge was the only way out of Washington D.C. and into Maryland?

3. What did the actress Laura Keene use as a passport into the President's box at Ford's Theater where Abraham Lincoln lay dying?

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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