Quiz questions for Abraham Lincoln assassination and funeral exhibit

[September 13, 2008]   You can use the Internet, but that won't be as much fun as guessing or talking them over with friends and family. The answers to this quiz will be in Monday's edition.

1. What were the last words Lincoln heard?

2. What was the last thing Lincoln consumed, and why is that ironic?

3. What Civil War general and his wife were invited, but declined, an invitation to Ford's Theatre the evening Lincoln was assassinated?

4. Instead of assassinating Lincoln, one of the conspirators hatched what unusual plan for Lincoln at the theater?

5. There were concerns that Lincoln might be assassinated on his way to and from what building he visited nearly every day?

6. Among the contents of Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated was currency. What monetary bill did he have in his pocket?

7. Lincoln's casket was reopened in 1901 while it was being relocated. How many people viewed the body, and what was the only thing that had greatly changed about Lincoln's appearance?

8. What other deceased person accompanied Lincoln on the funeral train to Springfield?

9. What unusual coincidence occurred between Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, and Robert Lincoln, the son of Abraham Lincoln?