Vocabulary/Punctuation

Mary Surratt was the ___ of the tavern in Surrattsville.

• proprietor

• conspirator

• confidant

• accomplice

Identify the punctuation mark needed for the following sentence:

Lewis Powell was arrested at Mary Surratt's boarding house George Atzerodt was found at his cousin's.

• comma

• question mark

• semicolon

• apostrophe

The Confederate central idea is the search for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators.

• True

• False

George Atzerodt was reluctant to carry out his part of the assassination plot.

• True

• False

When George Atzerodt was arrested, he _____ two people: Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd.

• obscured

• bewildered

• saturated

• implicated

Identify the mark of punctuation needed in the following sentence:

Although John Wilkes Booth was putting many families in danger he nevertheless expected hospitality.

• no punctuation

• comma

• semicolon

• period

Determine whether the following statement is true or false:

Mary Surratt hid the shooting irons at the tavern in Surrattsville.

• True

• False

Determine the type of the following sentence:

Because John Wilkes Booth and David Herold got turned around, they were still in Maryland when they thought they would be in Virginia.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound Complex

Determine the type of the following sentence:

Mary Surratt will end up being hanged, but Dr. Samuel Mudd will be set free.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound Complex

For four days John Wilkes Booth and David Herold hid in a ___ near to Thomas Jones.

• scheme

• dragnet

• swarm

• thicket