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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Russia.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Venezuela.

2. When John Wilkes Booth first met Thomas Jones, what did John Wilkes Booth say about his own possible capture?
(a) He said that he would prefer being taken alive if possible.
(b) He said he would be hung if he were captured.
(c) He said he was too smart to be captured.
(d) He said he would never be taken alive.

3. What was the subject of John Wilkes Booth's hand tattoo?
(a) A Confederate Flag.
(b) The initials JWB.
(c) A heart.
(d) An anchor.

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

5. Which newspaper had John Wilkes Booth named to his friend as the one he wanted to publish his letter about his assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The National Intelligencer.
(c) The Arlington Gazette.
(d) The New York Times.

6. Who was sent to fetch Thomas Jones in hopes that he would help John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their next escape step?
(a) Captain Samuel Cox's son.
(b) Captain Samuel Cox's wife.
(c) Captain Samuel Cox's sister.
(d) Captain Samuel Cox's uncle.

7. What was the reason that Captain Samuel Cox told John Wilkes Booth and David Herold not to make a fire in the forest?
(a) Because the fire might be seen and it would give away their hiding place.
(b) Because it had been a dry spring and they were likely to start a forest fire.
(c) Because he said they would build a fireplace on his next visit.
(d) Because the heat of a fire would exacerbate their dehydration.

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

9. When John Garrett came back from a neighboring farm with news about the new reward amount offered for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was the new sum?
(a) $160,000.
(b) $120,000.
(c) $140,000.
(d) $200,000.

10. When John Wilkes Booth became agitated upon seeing riders pass the Garretts' farm, whom did he ask to retrieve his pistols and gun belt?
(a) Richard Garrett, Jr.
(b) Richard H. Garrett.
(c) George Atzerodt.
(d) Alma Garrett.

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

12. 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?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

13. What action did Dr. Samuel Mudd take when he realized that eventually soldiers or detectives would discover that John Wilkes Booth and David Herold had been at his farm after the assassination?
(a) He sent his children to hide in Europe until any suspicion of the family had passed.
(b) He fled to Canada.
(c) He buried the guns and knives left behind by the assassins.
(d) He sent his cousin to alert the authorities about the visit and to clear his name in the process.

14. Who shot John Wilkes Booth?
(a) John Garrett.
(b) David Herold.
(c) Boston Corbett.
(d) Lafayette Baker.

15. What was Dr. RIchard Stuart's reaction to John Wilkes Booth's request for shelter for George Atzerodt and himself?
(a) He refused to house them, but did agree to feed them.
(b) He agreed to house them and rented them a team of horses for the next leg of their flight.
(c) He ordered them to leave his house immediately.
(d) He refused to feed them, but did agree to house them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which two co-conspirators did George Atzerodt implicate once he was caught by the authorities and confessed to his crimes?

3. What was the name of the fisherman who agreed to ferry John Wilkes Booth and David Herold across the Rappahannock River?

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

5. To whose house did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold flee once Dr. Samuel Mudd had insisted they leave his farm?

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