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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, We Know That We are Supported at Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When talking about the relationships between enlisted men and their officers, McPherson notes a major from which state who visited his sick and wounded soldiers every day?
(a) Illinois.
(b) New York.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Virginia.

2. Which of the following states had the strongest convictions about the war, according to the descriptions of Southern motivations for war?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.

3. When a young private predicted the bullet had not been made that would shoot him, McPherson notes he was correct because the private died in what prison?
(a) Elmira.
(b) Andersonville.
(c) Camp Ford.
(d) Point Lookout.

4. During the discussion of the issues that arose from the Emancipation Proclamation, McPherson says that it sparked a moral crisis in the Union armies during the winter of what year(s)?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1961-62.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1962-63.

5. 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?
(a) Cold Harbor.
(b) Petersburg.
(c) Spotsylvania.
(d) Pleasant Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Right before the battle of Gettysburg, a lieutenant in the 53rd Georgia wrote to his wife, that Pennsylvania was the greatest country he'd ever seen; what was his wife's name?

2. As McPherson recounts the experience of Patrick Cronan, he says that Cronan was a "street bully" who was eventually court martialed and made to wear a board with what word?

3. McPherson says that one of the reasons for this famous Confederate general's invasion of Tennessee during November 1864 was a hope to revitalize the troops from that state. What was this general's name?

4. Which soldier in the 103rd Ohio denounced the Emancipation Proclamation in letters to family from January to March of 1863?

5. As McPherson discusses the statistics for married men versus unmarried men, what percentage of married soldiers does he say were killed in action?

(see the answer key)

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