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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 Confederate Flag.
(b) A heart.
(c) An anchor.
(d) The initials JWB.

2. What happened to the Ford Theater as a result of its purported association with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) It was burned down.
(b) It was confiscated from the Ford family.
(c) It was shuttered forever and never showed another play.
(d) It was blown up with dynamite.

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

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

5. When John Wilkes Booth became terrified at the sounds he heard during Thomas Jones' visit to the forest hideout, what is NOT one reason for his decision to hunker down and hope for the best?
(a) Any direction in which they ran would be out in an open clearing.
(b) John Wilkes Booth could not walk due to his broken leg.
(c) Thomas Jones was unarmed.
(d) David Herold had never been in a battle before.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who came to Mary Surratt's door at the precise moment her boarding house was being searched by soldiers?

3. When Thomas Jones brought newspapers to the assassins' hideout in the forest, what about the newspapers' reports on his shooting of Abraham Lincoln surprised John Wilkes Booth?

4. Where did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold go once they secured a wagon, a team of horses, and a driver?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What was the first major break in the manhunt for the assassins and why was it significant?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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