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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What query did Laura Keene make of Dr. Charles Leale after she gained entry to the President's box where Lincoln lay dying?
(a) She asked if she could cradle Abraham Lincoln's head in her lap.
(b) She asked if she could have Abraham Lincoln's boots.
(c) She asked if she could cut a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair.
(d) She asked if she could gather some of Abraham Lincoln's blood.

2. What monument in Washington, D.C. had recently been completed at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in 1865?
(a) The Washington monument.
(b) The Capitol dome.
(c) The Lincoln monument.
(d) The Smithsonian Museum.

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 overthrow the Union government and install Confederate leaders instead.
(c) The plot to kidnap the president.
(d) The plot to assassinate Mary Todd Lincoln.

4. What was the subject of John Wilkes Booth's hand tattoo?
(a) A heart.
(b) An anchor.
(c) The initials JWB.
(d) A Confederate Flag.

5. How was Abraham Lincoln's body transported to Springfield after his funeral?
(a) By train.
(b) By hot air balloon.
(c) By boat.
(d) By horse-drawn carriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only audience member at Ford's Theater the night of the assassination to chase after John Wilkes Booth after the shooting?

2. What words did John Wilkes Booth shout after killing Lincoln and after shouting the state motto of Virginia?

3. What color were the horses that drew the carriage carrying Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the funeral procession?

4. What sound did John Wilkes Booth hear during Thomas Jones' visit to the forest hideout that terrified him?

5. Who was the subject of the incriminating photograph the soldiers find behind a picture frame in Mary Surratt's boarding house?

(see the answer key)

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