Weekly Checkpoint 15

someone willing to give his or her life (or something important) in order for others to be saved/benefit

• thicket

• carbine

• martyr

• menace

• elude

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Who was the farmer that helped Booth cross the river?

• Mr. Mudd
• Mr. Jones
• Mr. Atzerodt
• None of these.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What other MAIN conspirator is arrested?

• John Surratt
• George Atzerodt
• John Wilkes Booth

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

a bunch of dense/thick shrubs

• fugitive

• menacing

• carbine

• thicket

• coagulate

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When Dr. Mudd is questioned by the investigators, he surrenders the truth.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Where did they find George Atzerodt when they arrested him?

• At a bar
• At Ford's Theater
• In bed

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What was Booth so desperate to see?

• Newspaper articles
• The bullet from Lincoln's head
• The other conspirators

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What made Booth upset when reading the newspaper articles about the assassination?

• Lincoln was still being looked at as an evil person

• They pictured his Deringer pistol

• The article he wrote was not published

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

How does Mudd cover his tracks?

• He burns his farm down
• He sends his children to tell a vague statement
• He sends his cousin to tell a vague statement.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

What type of figurative language is this statement "Every building lining the avenue wept with black crepe"?

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor