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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 did John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt do when their Confederate soldier friends said the Union cavalry was approaching the Garretts' farm?
(a) They hid in the attic of the farmhouse.
(b) They ran into the woods behind the farm and hid.
(c) They stood on the porch with their guns raised.
(d) They took John Garrett hostage.

2. What did George Atzerodt purchase during his trip into Bowling Green?
(a) A pair of suspenders.
(b) A new pair of shoes.
(c) A pillow.
(d) A belt.

3. When John Wilkes Booth told the Garrett family where he was planning to go next, what town did he mention?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Orange Court House.
(d) Bowling Green.

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

5. What was the subject of John Wilkes Booth's hand tattoo?
(a) An anchor.
(b) A Confederate Flag.
(c) The initials JWB.
(d) A heart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the fisherman who agreed to ferry John Wilkes Booth and David Herold across the Rappahannock River?

3. Whose house did George Atzerodt visit for a midday meal late on Easter morning?

4. What sound did John Wilkes Booth hear during Thomas Jones' visit to the forest hideout that terrified him?

5. What is the name of the river that Thomas Jones was tasked with getting John Wilkes Booth and David Herold safely across?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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?

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. 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?

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