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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. Whose house did George Atzerodt visit for a midday meal late on Easter morning?
(a) Dr. Samuel Mudd.
(b) John Surratt.
(c) Captain Samuel Cox.
(d) Hezekiah Metz.

2. What two reasons does James L. Swanson cite for an autopsy having been performed on Abraham Lincoln, though it was clear what had caused his death?
(a) The doctors were paid by opportunists to perform the autopsy and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.
(b) The doctors wanted to study the effects of epilepsy and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.
(c) The doctors wanted the bullet and they were experiencing morbid curiosity.
(d) The doctors had to perform an autopsy by law since it had been a homicide and they wanted the bullet.

3. What happened when Thomas Jones arrived in Richmond, Virginia in April of 1865 with the intention of completing his intended task?
(a) The Confederate army had already evacuated the city and he went unpaid for his three years of service.
(b) His wife had found another man while he was in prison.
(c) He discovered that he did not enjoy being a blacksmith.
(d) John Wilkes Booth rebuffed his offer of help with the assassination plot.

4. What happened to the letter about John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln that he had given to his actor friend in order to have it published in a newspaper?
(a) His actor friend burned it.
(b) It got lost in the mail.
(c) His actor friend buried it.
(d) The newspaper decided not to publish it.

5. Before he fled to Europe to escape capture, where did John Surratt go to hide when he learned of Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Canada.
(c) Russia.
(d) Venezuela.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Dr. RIchard Stuart's reaction to John Wilkes Booth's request for shelter for George Atzerodt and himself?

2. How many miles away was the shore of Virginia from the place that John Wilkes Booth and David Herold put the boat into the water?

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

4. 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?

5. What did John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt do when their Confederate soldier friends said the Union cavalry was approaching the Garretts' farm?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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. 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?

10. 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?

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