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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. For what crime had Thomas Jones been jailed for months prior to getting out in April of 1865?
(a) Insubordination to an officer.
(b) Counterfeiting.
(c) Public intoxication.
(d) Disloyalty to the Union.

2. What was Dr. RIchard Stuart's reaction to John Wilkes Booth's request for shelter for George Atzerodt and himself?
(a) He refused to feed them, but did agree to house them.
(b) He refused to house them, but did agree to feed them.
(c) He agreed to house them and rented them a team of horses for the next leg of their flight.
(d) He ordered them to leave his house immediately.

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

4. What was the reason that Captain Samuel Cox told John Wilkes Booth and David Herold not to make a fire in the forest?
(a) Because the fire might be seen and it would give away their hiding place.
(b) Because he said they would build a fireplace on his next visit.
(c) Because the heat of a fire would exacerbate their dehydration.
(d) Because it had been a dry spring and they were likely to start a forest fire.

5. Where were citizens permitted to view Abraham Lincoln's open casket?
(a) Under the great dome inside the Capitol Building.
(b) In the Petersen Boarding House.
(c) In the courtyard of the Executive Mansion.
(d) In the Oval Office of the Executive Mansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lie did Dr. Samuel Mudd tell the soldiers in an attempt to lead them on a wild goose chase and throw them off the trail of John Wilkes Booth?

2. When Thomas Jones brought newspapers to the assassins' hideout in the forest, what about the newspapers' reports on Lewis Powell's attack on William Seward surprised John Wilkes Booth?

3. What title did the day of Abraham Lincoln's death come to be called?

4. When they had finally cornered Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was NOT one course of action taken by the Sixteenth New York Cavalry?

5. To whose house did John Wilkes Booth and David Herold flee once Dr. Samuel Mudd had insisted they leave his farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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