John Wilkes Booth - Test
John Wilkes Booth
  • 1. In which year was John Wilkes Booth born?
A) 1798
B) 1838
C) 1865
D) 1901
  • 2. What was John Wilkes Booth's occupation?
A) Doctor
B) Politician
C) Farmer
D) Actor
  • 3. Who was the president assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) John F. Kennedy
C) George Washington
D) Thomas Jefferson
  • 4. In which theater did John Wilkes Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln?
A) Kennedy Center
B) Radio City Music Hall
C) Ford's Theatre
D) Apollo Theater
  • 5. What was John Wilkes Booth's nationality?
A) Russian
B) American
C) French
D) British
  • 6. Who aided John Wilkes Booth in his escape after the assassination?
A) Mary Surratt
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Robert E. Lee
D) David Herold
  • 7. What was the name of the play being performed when John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln?
A) Our American Cousin
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Macbeth
D) Hamlet
  • 8. What was the name of the doctor who attended to Abraham Lincoln after he was shot?
A) Mudd Gatrich
B) Samuel Mudd
C) Simon Bodgett
D) Charles Leale
  • 9. What was John Wilkes Booth's father's name?
A) George Washington Booth
B) Junius Brutus Booth
C) Thomas Jefferson Booth
D) Abraham Lincoln Booth
  • 10. What was the name of John Wilkes Booth's fiancĂ©e?
A) Laura Keene
B) Lucy Hale
C) Clara Harris
D) Mary Todd Lincoln
  • 11. At what age did John Wilkes Booth die?
A) 50
B) 26
C) 40
D) 32
  • 12. Which group did John Wilkes Booth belong to that initially planned to abduct Abraham Lincoln?
A) Knights of the Golden Circle
B) Illuminati
C) Masons
D) Ku Klux Klan
  • 13. Who was the Vice President at the time of Lincoln's assassination?
A) Ulysses S. Grant
B) William McKinley
C) James A. Garfield
D) Andrew Johnson
  • 14. What was the name of John Wilkes Booth's popular sister who was a stage actress?
A) Mary Ann Booth
B) Asia Booth
C) Elizabeth Booth
D) Catherine Booth
  • 15. How many days after Lincoln's assassination was John Wilkes Booth killed?
A) 30
B) 12
C) 20
D) 5
  • 16. What was the name of the lead detective in the search for John Wilkes Booth?
A) Lafayette C. Baker
B) William H. Seward
C) Edwin M. Stanton
D) Thomas Eckert
  • 17. Where was John Wilkes Booth killed by Union troops?
A) Maryland
B) Virginia
C) Pennsylvania
D) Georgia
  • 18. In what city was John Wilkes Booth born?
A) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B) Boston, Massachusetts
C) Richmond, Virginia
D) Bel Air, Maryland
  • 19. On what date did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Abraham Lincoln?
A) April 14, 1865
B) April 26, 1865
C) April 14, 1864
D) May 10, 1865
  • 20. What happened to Booth after he was tracked down?
A) He was captured alive and hanged immediately
B) He escaped and was never found
C) He was shot by Union soldier Boston Corbett and died a few hours later
D) He was killed in a gunfight with Union soldiers
  • 21. Who was John Wilkes Booth named after?
A) Henry Winter Davis
B) English radical politician John Wilkes
C) Robert E. Lee
D) Abraham Lincoln
  • 22. What did Booth's sister recall about his reaction to a palm reading?
A) He wrote down the prediction and often discussed its portents
B) He immediately sought to change his fate
C) He ignored the prediction and never mentioned it again
D) He laughed it off as nonsense
  • 23. Which political party did Booth support in the 1854 elections?
A) The Democratic Party
B) The Know Nothing Party
C) The Whig Party
D) The Republican Party
  • 24. What did Booth practice daily as a teenager?
A) Military drills and tactics
B) Cooking and farming
C) Elocution and studying Shakespeare
D) Mathematics and science
  • 25. At what age did John Wilkes Booth make his stage debut?
A) 15
B) 19
C) 21
D) 17
  • 26. In which play did John Wilkes Booth make his stage debut?
A) Richard III
B) Macbeth
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
  • 27. What play did Booth perform in at the Arch Street Theatre in February 1858?
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) Lucrezia Borgia
D) Othello
  • 28. What role did Booth play in the play staged in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1858?
A) Brutus
B) Horatio
C) Petruchio Pandolfo
D) Mohegan Indian Chief Uncas
  • 29. What did Edwin Booth say to the audience after John Wilkes Booth's performance in 'Hamlet'?
A) He needs more practice.
B) He should try a different role.
C) He is not ready for the stage.
D) I think he's done well, don't you?
  • 30. How many plays did Booth perform in during 1858?
A) 83
B) 100
C) 75
D) 50
  • 31. How tall was John Wilkes Booth?
A) 5 feet 5 inches
B) 6 feet
C) 5 feet 8 inches
D) 6 feet 2 inches
  • 32. What did George Alfred Townsend describe Booth as?
A) A short and stout man
B) A muscular, perfect man
C) A tall and skinny man
D) A frail and delicate man
  • 33. How much was John Wilkes Booth earning annually by the end of the 1850s?
A) $15,000
B) $10,000
C) $30,000
D) $20,000
  • 34. What did some critics call John Wilkes Booth?
A) The most forgettable actor in America
B) The most talented actor in America
C) The handsomest man in America
D) The best Shakespearean actor in America
  • 35. Who did John Wilkes Booth engage to serve as his agent?
A) Philadelphia attorney Matthew Canning
B) John T. Ford
C) Walt Whitman
D) Edwin Booth
  • 36. Which poet and journalist commented on Booth's acting as having 'flashes, passages, I thought of real genius.'?
A) The National Republican drama critic
B) Walt Whitman
C) Matthew Canning
D) The Philadelphia Press drama critic
  • 37. In which city was Booth shot accidentally in October 1860?
A) Columbus, Georgia
B) Montgomery, Alabama
C) Albany, New York
D) New Orleans
  • 38. Which city's drama critics gave Booth rave reviews despite his 'treasonable statements'?
A) New York City's drama critics
B) Chicago's drama critics
C) Albany's drama critics
D) Boston's drama critics
  • 39. In which musical by Stephen Sondheim is Booth a central character?
A) The Cosgrove Report
B) Assassins
C) John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only
D) Richard III
  • 40. What was the original name of the oil venture started by Booth and his partners?
A) Ellsler Oil
B) Booth Oil
C) Dramatic Oil
D) Wilkes Oil
  • 41. What did Booth's last words reportedly say?
A) I am at peace
B) I am sorry
C) I am proud
D) Useless, useless
  • 42. How did Booth feel about Lincoln's re-election?
A) Supportive
B) Pleased
C) Angered
D) Indifferent
  • 43. Which actor played John Wilkes Booth in the Wagon Train episode 'The John Wilbot Story'?
A) Rob Morrow
B) Kelly Blatz
C) John Lasell
D) Dane Clark
  • 44. In which play did Booth perform with his brothers Edwin and Junius on November 25, 1864?
A) Hamlet
B) The Marble Heart
C) Julius Caesar
D) Richard III
  • 45. Which actor played John Wilkes Booth in the Robert Redford film 'The Conspirator'?
A) Christian Camargo
B) Toby Kebbell
C) John Derek
D) Jesse Johnson
  • 46. What was the name of the oil company formed by Booth and his partners?
A) Mears Oil Company
B) Fuller Farm Oil
C) Booth Oil Company
D) Ellsler Oil Company
  • 47. Which actor played John Wilkes Booth in the 1977 film 'The Lincoln Conspiracy'?
A) James Marsden
B) John Derek
C) Chris Conner
D) Bradford Dillman
  • 48. Who was assigned to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward?
A) Booth.
B) Herold.
C) Atzerodt.
D) Powell.
  • 49. In which episode of The Twilight Zone did John Lasell portray John Wilkes Booth?
A) 'The Day Lincoln Was Shot' (1956)
B) 'The John Wilbot Story' (1958)
C) 'Back There' (1961)
D) 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln' (S01E02)
  • 50. Who declined the theatre invitation, preventing an assassination attempt?
A) Ulysses S. Grant.
B) William H. Seward.
C) Robert E. Lee.
D) Andrew Johnson.
  • 51. Where did Booth and Herold finally reach the Virginia shore?
A) Surratt's Tavern
B) Port Royal, Virginia
C) Near Machodoc Creek
D) Belle Plain, Virginia
  • 52. Who portrayed John Wilkes Booth in the Timeless episode 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln'?
A) Kelly Blatz
B) Rob Morrow
C) John Lasell
D) Anthony Boyle
  • 53. What was the modern equivalent of Booth's $6,000 loss?
A) $100,000
B) $123,511
C) $150,000
D) $200,000
  • 54. Who was responsible for boring the spyhole into the door of the presidential box?
A) Harry Clay Ford.
B) Frank Ford.
C) John T. Ford.
D) John Wilkes Booth.
  • 55. Who portrayed John Wilkes Booth in the 2024 Apple TV+ miniseries Manhunt?
A) Rob Morrow
B) Anthony Boyle
C) John Lasell
D) Kelly Blatz
  • 56. What role did Booth play in the November 25, 1864, production of Julius Caesar?
A) Cassius
B) Caesar
C) Mark Antony
D) Brutus
  • 57. Who led Booth and Herold to Col. John J. Hughes' farm in Maryland?
A) A Confederate sympathizer farmer
B) Joseph 'Peanuts' Burroughs
C) Thomas A. Jones
D) David Herold
  • 58. Who played John Wilkes Booth in the 1998 remake of 'The Day Lincoln Was Shot'?
A) Rob Morrow
B) Anthony Boyle
C) Kelly Blatz
D) John Lasell
  • 59. Which Unsolved Mysteries host presented the episode examining the theory that Booth escaped to Oklahoma?
A) Robert Stack
B) Tony Rice
C) Dennis Farina
D) Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • 60. On what date did Booth withdraw from the oil business?
A) November 27, 1864
B) October 31, 1864
C) December 1, 1864
D) November 15, 1864
  • 61. What did Booth intend to do after learning of the surrender of Johnston's army?
A) Reach Mexico
B) Hide in the Maryland woods
C) Return to Washington D.C.
D) Join Confederate forces
  • 62. What was Booth's plan if the Confederate government could not continue the war?
A) To become a farmer.
B) To flee to Canada.
C) To join the Union Army.
D) To avenge the South's defeat.
  • 63. What was Booth's relationship with his brother Edwin?
A) They increasingly quarreled, especially over Booth's partisan views.
B) They were close and shared the same views.
C) Edwin was a Confederate soldier.
D) They had no contact during the Civil War.
  • 64. Who depicted John Wilkes Booth in 'National Treasure: Book of Secrets'?
A) Christian Camargo
B) Jesse Johnson
C) Chris Conner
D) James Marsden
  • 65. Where did Booth meet with Confederate sympathizers in Boston?
A) Faneuil Hall.
B) The Parker House.
C) Old North Church.
D) Boston Common.
  • 66. Who was the Confederate agent that Booth and Herold contacted after arriving at Samuel Cox's home?
A) Dr. Samuel Mudd
B) Thomas A. Jones
C) Joseph 'Peanuts' Burroughs
D) Edmund Spangler
  • 67. Who was dispatched from Washington to capture Booth in Virginia?
A) Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty
B) Thomas A. Jones
C) Joseph 'Peanuts' Burroughs
D) Colonel Everton Conger
  • 68. What was the significance of the phrase 'Sic semper tyrannis'?
A) It means 'In God we trust'.
B) It means 'Liberty or death'.
C) It means 'To the victor, the spoils'.
D) It means 'Thus always to tyrants'.
  • 69. In which web television series is Booth portrayed by Anthony Padilla?
A) Blame the Hero
B) Grant
C) Manhunt
D) Abraham Lincoln
  • 70. Which adaptation of Shakespeare's text is used in Booth's surviving promptbook?
A) William Shakespeare adaptation
B) Matthew Weiner adaptation
C) Stephen Sondheim adaptation
D) Colley Cibber adaptation
  • 71. Who held Booth's getaway horse in the alley after he fled Ford's Theatre?
A) Joseph 'Peanuts' Burroughs
B) Edmund Spangler
C) Thomas A. Jones
D) David Herold
  • 72. Who played John Wilkes Booth in the film 'Abraham Lincoln' directed by D. W. Griffith?
A) John Derek
B) James Marsden
C) Bradford Dillman
D) Ian Keith
  • 73. Which theatre company developed a staged reading of Booth's 'Richard III'?
A) Harvard Theatre Collection
B) The Hidden Room
C) Baltimore Center Stage
D) Harry Ransom Center
  • 74. What method did Booth and his partners use in an attempt to increase the well's output?
A) Water pressure
B) Mechanical pumps
C) Steam
D) Explosives
  • 75. How much crude oil did the Wilhelmina well yield daily?
A) 15 barrels
B) 20 barrels
C) 25 barrels
D) 30 barrels
  • 76. Which TV series featured all three Booth brothers interacting with the Morehouses and Elizabeth in New York City?
A) Copper
B) Unsolved Mysteries
C) Timeless
D) The Twilight Zone
  • 77. Which city did Booth visit in October that was a center of Confederate activity?
A) New York City.
B) Richmond.
C) Baltimore.
D) Montreal.
  • 78. What was Booth's reaction to the South's situation in the Civil War?
A) Growing more obsessed
B) Supportive of the Union
C) Indifferent
D) Uninterested
  • 79. Who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson?
A) Powell.
B) Herold.
C) Atzerodt.
D) Booth.
  • 80. What is the title of G. J. A. O'Toole's historical fiction-mystery novel?
A) John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only
B) The Cosgrove Report
C) Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
D) Assassins
  • 81. What did Booth use to assassinate Lincoln?
A) .41 caliber Deringer pistol.
B) Sword.
C) Knife.
D) Rifle.
  • 82. Where did Booth stay during his trip to Montreal?
A) St. Lawrence Hall.
B) The Parker House.
C) Old Soldiers Home.
D) National Hotel.
  • 83. Where did the world premiere of 'John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only' take place?
A) Harry Ransom Center
B) Greenmount Cemetery
C) Harvard Theatre Collection
D) Baltimore Center Stage
  • 84. Who portrayed John Wilkes Booth in a flashback cameo in the comedy 'Zoolander'?
A) Toby Kebbell
B) Bradford Dillman
C) Chris Conner
D) James Marsden
  • 85. What did Booth draft after Lincoln's election in 1860?
A) A play about Southern life.
B) A novel about the Civil War.
C) A letter supporting Lincoln.
D) A long speech decriing Northern abolitionism.
  • 86. Where did Booth and his partners invest in an oil well in late 1863?
A) Franklin, Pennsylvania
B) New York, New York
C) Boston, Massachusetts
D) Cleveland, Ohio
  • 87. In which year did the miniseries 'Abraham Lincoln' depict Booth's shooting of Lincoln?
A) 2020
B) 2022
C) 2019
D) 2024
  • 88. What was the title of the play in which Booth played a Greek sculptor in costume at Ford's Theatre?
A) Julius Caesar
B) Richard III
C) Hamlet
D) The Marble Heart
  • 89. What was the name of Mears' wife, after whom the oil well was named?
A) Mary
B) Elizabeth
C) Wilhelmina
D) Sarah
  • 90. Who was not harmed during the assassination?
A) John Wilkes Booth.
B) Major Henry Rathbone.
C) Mary Todd Lincoln.
D) Clara Harris.
  • 91. What was Booth charged with in St. Louis in 1863?
A) Espionage.
B) Making treasonous remarks against the government.
C) Theft.
D) Assassination attempt.
  • 92. Who was in the presidential box with Mary Todd Lincoln?
A) Andrew Johnson.
B) General Ulysses S. Grant.
C) Major Henry Rathbone.
D) William H. Seward.
  • 93. What did Booth shout after assassinating Lincoln?
A) Carpe diem.
B) Veni, vidi, vici.
C) Sic semper tyrannis.
D) Eureka!
  • 94. What play was Booth planning to use as a cover for kidnapping Lincoln?
A) Still Waters Run Deep.
B) Othello.
C) Hamlet.
D) Macbeth.
  • 95. Which Confederate general called Booth's act 'a disgrace to the age'?
A) Joseph E. Johnston
B) Robert E. Lee
C) Thomas A. Jones
D) Edmund Spangler
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