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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As "Chapter 2: We Were in Earnest" opens, McPherson says that another name for the Civil War is what?
(a) The Confederate War.
(b) The Brothers' War.
(c) The Union War.
(d) The Slavery War.

2. In May 1864 the 7th New York was delighted to be ordered into action; they were less excited nine months later after having lost how many men?
(a) 291.
(b) 309.
(c) 98.
(d) 147.

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) Illinois.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Georgia.

4. As McPherson talks about the literacy rates during the Civil War, he says that what percentage of Union soldiers were literate?
(a) 65%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 30%.

5. After the attack on Fort Sumter, all BUT WHICH of the following states joined the other seven Southern states that had seceded prior to April, 1861?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the discussion of Southern propaganda, a planter wrote his wife of the defense of innocent women from the "lecherous Northern hirelings." From which state was this soldier?

2. In "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," soldiers on both sides were afraid the war would be over before they had a chance to do anything, a fear written by a recruit from which regiment?

3. During the discussion of religion, from which state was the private who wrote in 1861 that he wanted to put down the rebellion but hoped the war would end without him having to kill anybody?

4. Which of the following states had the strongest convictions about the war, according to the descriptions of Southern motivations for war?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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