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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 was sent to fetch Thomas Jones in hopes that he would help John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their next escape step?
(a) Captain Samuel Cox's sister.
(b) Captain Samuel Cox's wife.
(c) Captain Samuel Cox's uncle.
(d) Captain Samuel Cox's son.

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

3. When they had finally cornered Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was NOT one course of action taken by the Sixteenth New York Cavalry?
(a) All of the soldiers charged the barn at once.
(b) They sent an unarmed civilian to disarm him.
(c) They threatened to burn the barn down if the occupants did not emerge.
(d) They attempted to coax him out of the barn.

4. When John Garrett tried to throw John Wilkes Booth and George Atzerodt out of the house, what was his reason?
(a) He thought his father would be angry with him for letting the men stay for so many nights.
(b) He was tired of their demanding attitudes.
(c) He thought they were preparing to steal the Garretts' horses.
(d) He began to suspect that they were associated with Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became President of the United States upon Abraham Lincoln's death?

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

3. What action did Dr. Samuel Mudd take when he realized that eventually soldiers or detectives would discover that John Wilkes Booth and David Herold had been at his farm after the assassination?

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

5. Who sent a telegram to Major General Dix, sending the news that Abraham Lincoln had died?

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

3. While Thomas Jones was arrested and was briefly imprisoned, he continued to insist on his own innocence and there was no evidence to convict him of any crime. In what way did the truth of his involvement eventually come out?

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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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