For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Slavery Must be Cleaned Out.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While talking about the Emancipation Proclamation's effect on Union morale, McPherson says that, in comparison to enlisted men, what percentage of officers supported emancipation?
(a) 78%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 44%.
(d) 89%.

2. McPherson quotes a sergeant who had spent the first twenty months of service guarding railroad bridges, as being disgusted with the lack of action. Which state was he from?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Indiana.

3. An experience at Gaines Mill on June 27, 1862, where the Union line slowly began to leak stragglers, was described by a corporal from which state?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Georgia.
(d) North Carolina.

4. In the explanation of the Rebel Yell, McPherson quotes a soldier from which state who had said he would never yell during battle, but had anyway?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Virginia.

5. After the battle of Fredericksburg, the 10th New York had fought six battles in as many months and had lost all but how many men?
(a) 320.
(b) 68.
(c) 130.
(d) 240.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the discussion of primary group cohesion, a soldier in the 122nd New York wrote to his sister in response to how he kept going through all BUT WHICH of these battles?

2. During the Seven Days battles, the 83rd Pennsylvania suffered what percentage of casualties?

3. As "Chapter 6: A Band of Brothers" opens, McPherson says that Civil War soldiers wrote much about all BUT WHICH of these synonyms?

4. From which state was the private who wrote in January 1862, after speaking to a slave whose husband had been beaten, that he was convinced of the "cruelty and inhumanity of the system"?

5. After the battle of Seven Pines, a captain from which state wrote that he was fine as long as there was battle but that afterward he was quite sick for a few days?

(see the answer key)

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