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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. How did John Wilkes Booth gain shelter for the night at the home of Lucas, the African-American neighbor of Dr. Richard Stuart?
(a) He paid Mr. Lucas one hundred dollars.
(b) He told Mr. Lucas that his killing of Abraham Lincoln had been an accident.
(c) He threatened to kill Mr. Lucas's son Charlie.
(d) He threatened Mr. Lucas with violence.

2. How many visitors visit the museum in the basement of Ford's Theater each year?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 3 million.

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

4. 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?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A cauterizing gun.
(c) A tracheotomy tube.
(d) A Nelaton probe.

5. Before he fled to Europe to escape capture, where did John Surratt go to hide when he learned of Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
(a) Canada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the subject of the photographs John Wilkes Booth took with him the night of the assassination?

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. Who accompanied Reverend Gurley when it was time to tell Mary Todd Lincoln that her husband Abraham Lincoln had died?

4. When the authorities searched John Wilkes Booth's room and found a letter explaining the assassination plot, what name was signed at the bottom of the letter?

5. In what type of coffin was Abraham Lincoln transported back to the Executive Mansion?

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