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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 a plan to assassinate newly-appointed President Andrew Johnson.
(c) He joked that he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
(d) He joked that he had been friends with David Herold.

4. How many miles away was the shore of Virginia from the place that John Wilkes Booth and David Herold put the boat into the water?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When John Wilkes Booth became agitated upon seeing riders pass the Garretts' farm, whom did he ask to retrieve his pistols and gun belt?

3. 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?

4. Who became President of the United States upon Abraham Lincoln's death?

5. How was Abraham Lincoln's body transported to Springfield after his funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action did Dr. Samuel Mudd take that sealed his position as an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth's?

2. What was ironic about the way in which John Wilkes Booth and David Herold got out of their predicament of getting lost on their way to Captain Samuel Cox's farm?

3. What was Dr. Samuel Mudd's response when he learned that Abraham Lincoln had been killed and that John Wilkes Booth had been the assassin?

4. While Thomas Jones was arrested and was briefly imprisoned, he continued to insist on his own innocence and there was no evidence to convict him of any crime. In what way did the truth of his involvement eventually come out?

5. What is James L. Swanson's purpose in including the detail, "He was too far from Washington to hear the ringing bells of the city's churches tolling in mourning," (60) when describing John Wikes Booth's arrival at the farm of Dr. Samuel Mudd?

6. What did Dr. Richard Stuart do to earn the ire of John Wilkes Booth and how did John Wilkes Booth make his feelings about the matter known?

7. What type of tone does James L. Swanson use in describing the actions of Lafayette Baker and his men as they surrounded the barn in which they knew John Wilkes Booth was hiding?

8. Why did authorities feel that they had such an airtight case against John Wilkes Booth for killing Abraham Lincoln if they were ever able to bring him to justice in a court of law?

9. To what cause does James L. Swanson attribute the decision by doctors to perform an autopsy on Abraham Lincoln after his death?

10. When James L. Swanson states that John Wilkes Booth had planned in detail the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and his escape from the theater itself, but not much beyond that, what details does he use to support his point?

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