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