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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Thomas Jones had been released from jail in April of 1865, for what purpose did he visit Richmond, Virginia?
(a) To learn the trade of blacksmithing.
(b) To join in the assassination plot.
(c) To collect the money owed to him by the Confederacy.
(d) To reunite with his wife and children.

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

3. What happened to the Ford Theater as a result of its purported association with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) It was shuttered forever and never showed another play.
(b) It was confiscated from the Ford family.
(c) It was blown up with dynamite.
(d) It was burned down.

4. What was the name of the prison where all of the assassination co-conspirators were sent once captured?
(a) Sing Sing Prison.
(b) Old Capitol Prison.
(c) San Quentin Prison.
(d) Leavenworth Prison.

5. 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?
(a) Lincoln's son Tad.
(b) Lincoln's wife Mary Todd.
(c) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) William Seward's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lie did Dr. Samuel Mudd tell the soldiers in an attempt to lead them on a wild goose chase and throw them off the trail of John Wilkes Booth?

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

3. 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?

4. What was the reason that Captain Samuel Cox told John Wilkes Booth and David Herold not to make a fire in the forest?

5. What piece of medical equipment did Dr. Charles Leale send a hospital steward to retrieve so that he could work on Lincoln's brain in hopes of saving him?

(see the answer key)

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