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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. Who was the first person the soldiers questioned when they reached the Mudd Farm?
(a) Mrs. Samuel Mudd.
(b) Dr. Samuel Mudd.
(c) Tad Mudd.
(d) Rachel Mudd.

2. At what time did Abraham Lincoln die on April 15, 1865?
(a) 9:22 p.m.
(b) 1:22 p.m.
(c) 7:22 a.m.
(d) 8:22 p.m.

3. Who became President of the United States upon Abraham Lincoln's death?
(a) George Atzerodt.
(b) William Seward.
(c) Salmon Chase.
(d) Andrew Johnson.

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

5. What did John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt do when their Confederate soldier friends said the Union cavalry was approaching the Garretts' farm?
(a) They ran into the woods behind the farm and hid.
(b) They hid in the attic of the farmhouse.
(c) They stood on the porch with their guns raised.
(d) They took John Garrett hostage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color ribbons did people wear as they expressed their grief over Abraham Lincoln's assassination?

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

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?

4. How did John Wilkes Booth describe his own hands with his last words?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it about Thomas Jones' role in helping the fugitives John Wilkes Booth and David Herold put Thomas Jones' own life in such grave danger?

2. How did the transportation of Abraham Lincoln's body from the Pedersen boarding house to the Executive Mansion belie Abraham Lincoln's modest personality in life?

3. 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?

4. Why was the decision made to shoot the healthy horses belonging to John Wilkes Booth and David Herold?

5. What evidence was there that indicated Thomas Jones's sole reason for helping John Wilkes Booth was because he shared the same values with the assassin?

6. What damning evidence did investigators find inside the boarding house of Mary Surratt?

7. Once she was sent from the room in which Abraham Lincoln lay dying, why did Marty Todd Lincoln never see her husband's face again?

8. 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?

9. How does James L. Swanson use the appeal of pathos to craft the portrait of Edman Spangler, the 39-year-old stagehand from Ford's Theater?

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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