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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. Which newspaper had John Wilkes Booth named to his friend as the one he wanted to publish his letter about his assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
2. When John Garrett came back from a neighboring farm with news about the new reward amount offered for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what was the new sum?
3. What was the name of John Wilkes Booth's sister, whose home detectives raided in an effort to find anything associated with John Wilkes Booth?
4. When the authorities searched John Wilkes Booth's room and found a letter explaining the assassination plot, what name was signed at the bottom of the letter?
5. On what date did Abraham Lincoln's funeral take place?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was the decision made to shoot the healthy horses belonging to John Wilkes Booth and David Herold?
2. What was the reason for Andrew Johnson's lack of a formal public inaugural address upon his ascendency to the presidency?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. What damning evidence did investigators find inside the boarding house of Mary Surratt?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. To what cause does James L. Swanson attribute the decision by doctors to perform an autopsy on Abraham Lincoln after his death?
9. What type of tone does James L. Swanson use in describing the actions of Lafayette Baker and his men as they surrounded the barn in which they knew John Wilkes Booth was hiding?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the author's use of the omniscient third person point of view serve his purposes over the course of the book? Discuss how his choice of point of view helps to advance his treatment of at least three particular themes within the novel. Use concrete details from the text to support your points.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss three different women that appear within the book's narrative and compare and contrast their characteristics. How do their roles differ and how are their roles similar? Taken together, what depiction of women is present in the overall narrative? Choose concrete details about all three women to support your points.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author of Chasing Lincoln's Killer's message regarding fame and infamy? Create a clear and specific claim and prove it using concrete details from the narrative.
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