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

2. Who was the subject of the incriminating photograph the soldiers find behind a picture frame in Mary Surratt's boarding house?
(a) John Wilkes Booth.
(b) General Robert E. Lee.
(c) Laura Keene.
(d) General Ulysses S. Grant.

3. 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?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. Who locked John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt inside the tobacco barn once they had settled in for the night?
(a) Richard Garrett, Jr.
(b) Alma Garrett.
(c) Richard H. Garrett.
(d) William Garrett.

5. What joke did George Atzerodt make that caused a guest at the midday meal to report him to the authorities?
(a) He joked that he admired John Wilkes Booth.
(b) He joked that he had been friends with David Herold.
(c) He joked that he had a plan to assassinate newly-appointed President Andrew Johnson.
(d) He joked that he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Abraham Lincoln's funeral take place?

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

3. What was the name of Richard H. Garrett's farm?

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

5. How many days did it take John Wilkes Booth to travel from Washington to Port Conway?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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