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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 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) San Quentin Prison.
(d) Leavenworth Prison.

2. Who was the photographer who had both photographed Abraham Lincoln many times during Lincoln's life and was responsible for photographing the crime scene after Lincoln's assassination?
(a) Laura Keene.
(b) Lewis Powell.
(c) John Surratt.
(d) Matthew Brady.

3. In what type of coffin was Abraham Lincoln transported back to the Executive Mansion?
(a) A marble coffin.
(b) A plain pine box.
(c) A polished walnut box.
(d) An ebony coffin.

4. Who accompanied Reverend Gurley when it was time to tell Mary Todd Lincoln that her husband Abraham Lincoln had died?
(a) Laura Keene.
(b) Tad Lincoln.
(c) Dr. Samuel Mudd.
(d) Robert Lincoln.

5. 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 blown up with dynamite.
(c) It was confiscated from the Ford family.
(d) It was burned down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of John Wilkes Booth's sister, whose home detectives raided in an effort to find anything associated with John Wilkes Booth?

2. When John Garrett tried to throw John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt out of the house, what was his reason?

3. What set of items did Dr. Samuel Mudd make for John Wilkes Booth before he sent him away from the Mudd Farm?

4. What was the subject of John Wilkes Booth's hand tattoo?

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 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?

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. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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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