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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XII-XIV & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title did the day of Abraham Lincoln's death come to be called?
(a) Black Good Friday.
(b) Black Easter.
(c) Black Sunday.
(d) Black Palm Sunday.

2. 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?
(a) John Surratt.
(b) Lewis Powell.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Lieutenant Lafayette Baker.

3. Who answered the door when Lewis Powell rang the doorbell at William Seward's house?
(a) Fanny Seward.
(b) The Sewards' servant.
(c) Frederick Seward.
(d) William Seward's doctor.

4. What signal did Captain Samuel Cox tell David Herold and John Wilkes Booth that someone they could trust would use as they approached the forest hiding place?
(a) A three-note whistle.
(b) A five-note whistle.
(c) The hoot of an owl.
(d) A two-note-whistle.

5. How far away from Washington D.C. were Mary Surratt's tavern and boardinghouse?
(a) 10 miles away.
(b) 13 miles away.
(c) 30 miles away.
(d) 23 miles away.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Wilkes Booth told the Garrett family where he was planning to go next, what town did he mention?

2. When Thomas Jones brought newspapers to the assassins' hideout in the forest, what about the newspapers' reports on Lewis Powell's attack on William Seward surprised John Wilkes Booth?

3. The plot to assassinate the top Union leaders included all but which of the following people?

4. What atrocity did Major Henry Rathbone commit 18 years after he accompanied the Lincolns to Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was assassinated?

5. Who relented and released the body of John Wilkes Booth to the assassin's brother Edwin?

(see the answer key)

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