View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) $140,000.
(b) $120,000.
(c) $160,000.
(d) $200,000.

3. What color were the horses that drew the carriage carrying Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the funeral procession?
(a) Black.
(b) Tan.
(c) Brown.
(d) White.

4. What color ribbons did people wear as they expressed their grief over Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

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 hid in the attic of the farmhouse.
(b) They stood on the porch with their guns raised.
(c) They took John Garrett hostage.
(d) They ran into the woods behind the farm and hid.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the authorities searched John Wilkes Booth's room and found a letter explaining the assassination plot, what name was signed at the bottom of the letter?

2. 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?

3. What signal did Captain Samuel Cox tell David Herold and John Wilkes Booth that someone they could trust would use as they approached the forest hiding place?

4. When John Wilkes Booth first met Thomas Jones, what did John Wilkes Booth say about his own possible capture?

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 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?

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 the reason for Andrew Johnson's lack of a formal public inaugural address upon his ascendency to the presidency?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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. Though John Wilkes Booth was angry at the newspapers for suppressing his written explanation for why he had killed Abraham Lincoln that he had given to his actor friend, what was the truth surrounding why his letter had not been published?

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. 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?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,499 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample