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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color ribbons did people wear as they expressed their grief over Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
2. Where were citizens permitted to view Abraham Lincoln's open casket?
3. 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?
4. Who came to Mary Surratt's door at the precise moment her boarding house was being searched by soldiers?
5. When they had finally cornered Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was NOT one course of action taken by the Sixteenth New York Cavalry?
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. 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?
3. To what cause does James L. Swanson attribute the decision by doctors to perform an autopsy on Abraham Lincoln after his death?
4. 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?
5. What action did Dr. Samuel Mudd take that sealed his position as an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth's?
6. 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?
7. What was the reason for Andrew Johnson's lack of a formal public inaugural address upon his ascendency to the presidency?
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. 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?
10. What damning evidence did investigators find inside the boarding house of Mary Surratt?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's treatment of race relations within the events of the book? How does he get across to the reader the complexities of the country's conflicts without devoting entire chapters to the topic of race? Craft a specific and clear claim regarding the author's treatment of the race relations theme and use textual details to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's decision to include a variety of primary documents within the text. What purpose did he have when including images of real documents such as newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and other ephemera? Back up your strong, specific claim about the author's use of primary documents with concrete details from the ephemera he includes in the book.
Essay Topic 3
How is the theme of hope depicted within the narrative despite the grim act at the center of its story? Create a clear, specific claim and support it with concrete details from the book.
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