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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. Who came to Mary Surratt's door at the precise moment her boarding house was being searched by soldiers?
(a) David Herold.
(b) William Seward.
(c) Lewis Powell.
(d) George Atzerodt.

2. 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 had a plan to assassinate newly-appointed President Andrew Johnson.
(b) He joked that he had been friends with David Herold.
(c) He joked that he admired John Wilkes Booth.
(d) He joked that he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

3. When John Wilkes Booth first met Thomas Jones, what did John Wilkes Booth say about his own possible capture?
(a) He said he would be hung if he were captured.
(b) He said that he would prefer being taken alive if possible.
(c) He said he was too smart to be captured.
(d) He said he would never be taken alive.

4. How much money did Edwin Stanton offer to anyone who could bring to justice Abraham Lincoln's killers?
(a) $100,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $85,000.
(d) $200,000.

5. What story did John Wilkes Booth tell Richard H. Garrett about his predicament?
(a) He claimed that he had fallen out of a tree and had broken his leg.
(b) He claimed that he had been wounded in battle and was being chased by the Union cavalry.
(c) He claimed that George Atzerodt was his brother and that he was wanted for disloyalty to the Union.
(d) He claimed that he had been injured while chasing Abraham Lincoln's assassins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Captain Samuel Cox feel when he suspected his summons might be connected to the assassination plots?

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

4. What was John Wilkes Booth wearing when he went into hiding in the pine forest?

5. When Secretary of War Edwin Stanton realized that he could not continue with the manhunt for the assassins since he had so many other duties to take care of, to whom does he delegate the manhunt responsibility?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What action did Dr. Samuel Mudd take that sealed his position as an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth's?

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. 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?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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