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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 came to Mary Surratt's door at the precise moment her boarding house was being searched by soldiers?
(a) Lewis Powell.
(b) George Atzerodt.
(c) William Seward.
(d) David Herold.

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

3. 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) David Herold had never been in a battle before.
(b) John Wilkes Booth could not walk due to his broken leg.
(c) Any direction in which they ran would be out in an open clearing.
(d) Thomas Jones was unarmed.

4. 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 buried the guns and knives left behind by the assassins.
(c) He fled to Canada.
(d) He sent his cousin to alert the authorities about the visit and to clear his name in the process.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who locked John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt inside the tobacco barn once they had settled in for the night?

4. In addition to food, what other items did Thomas Jones bring to John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their forest hiding place, much to John Wilkes Booth's delight?

5. How much money did Edwin Stanton offer to anyone who could bring to justice Abraham Lincoln's killers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it about the newspapers brought to him by Thomas Jones that stunned John Wilkes Booth while he was hiding in the pine thicket?

2. 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?

3. What key suggestion did Thomas Jones offer to John Wilkes Booth and David Herold that ended up frustrating any leads gained within the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth?

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. 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?

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

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

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

10. What elements of the crime scene investigation mirror modern forensic methods used today?

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