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

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

3. How did John Wilkes Booth describe his own hands with his last words?
(a) Troublesome.
(b) Useless.
(c) Inane.
(d) Ineffectual.

4. After Thomas Jones had been released from jail in April of 1865, for what purpose did he visit Richmond, Virginia?
(a) To collect the money owed to him by the Confederacy.
(b) To join in the assassination plot.
(c) To learn the trade of blacksmithing.
(d) To reunite with his wife and children.

5. 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?
(a) The newspapers had printed the article about the assassination plot that he had sent to them.
(b) They condemned the assassination.
(c) They were outdated by more than a week, so they did not mention the assassination at all.
(d) They celebrated the assassination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the prison where all of the assassination co-conspirators were sent once captured?

2. 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?

3. Who was the first person the soldiers questioned when they reached the Mudd Farm?

4. Where were citizens permitted to view Abraham Lincoln's open casket?

5. What happened to the Ford Theater as a result of its purported association with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Within the entirety of the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth, what event acted as the closest the manhunters ever came to capturing John Wilkes Booth, besides the last standoff at Garrett Farm?

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

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. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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