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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 joke did George Atzerodt make that caused a guest at the midday meal to report him to the authorities?
(a) He joked that he admired John Wilkes Booth.
(b) He joked that he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
(c) He joked that he had been friends with David Herold.
(d) He joked that he had a plan to assassinate newly-appointed President Andrew Johnson.

2. How did John Wilkes Booth describe his own hands with his last words?
(a) Inane.
(b) Troublesome.
(c) Ineffectual.
(d) Useless.

3. Who was the subject of the incriminating photograph the soldiers find behind a picture frame in Mary Surratt's boarding house?
(a) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) John Wilkes Booth.
(c) General Robert E. Lee.
(d) Laura Keene.

4. For what crime had Thomas Jones been jailed for months prior to getting out in April of 1865?
(a) Insubordination to an officer.
(b) Disloyalty to the Union.
(c) Public intoxication.
(d) Counterfeiting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Thomas Jones refused to accept all of the money that John Wilkes Booth offered to him, he did take enough to cover the cost of the getaway boat. How much money did he accept?

2. How many nights in total did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold spend in the pine forest before they made the attempt to get to Virginia?

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

4. Who was sent to fetch Thomas Jones in hopes that he would help John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their next escape step?

5. When Secretary of War Edwin Stanton realized that he could not continue with the manhunt for the assassins since he had so many other duties to take care of, to whom does he delegate the manhunt responsibility?

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