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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Cause of Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Seven Days battles, the 83rd Pennsylvania suffered what percentage of casualties?
(a) 25%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 98%.
(d) 75%.

2. In the discussion of the Confederate ideal of white supremacy and the right to slavery, from which state was the soldier who wrote he was "fighting for our liberty against tyrants of the North...who are determined to destroy slavery"?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Kentucky.

3. In July 1861, what battle caused Northern volunteers to flock to the army?
(a) Shiloh.
(b) Gettysburg.
(c) Chancellorville.
(d) Bull Run.

4. In the discussion of hyped-up battle behavior, McPherson notes that the phenomenon has been described as all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Battle rage.
(b) Fighting madness.
(c) Military craze.
(d) Combat frenzy.

5. During the Bristoe campaign, from which state was the sergeant who disobeyed a surgeon's order to go to the hospital because he was afraid of the suspicion attached?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "Chapter Two: We Were in Earnest," readers find that the "we were in earnest" chapter title comes from a soldier in which of the following regiments?

2. As McPherson discusses the initial impulse that prompted men to enlist on both sides after the raid on Fort Sumter he references which of the following French terms?

3. 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?

4. As the book opens, McPherson says that he took some Princeton students to Gettysburg in the spring of what year?

5. While attempting to define the "glorious institutions" that kept men fighting during the Civil War, a soldier from which state defined it as "the guaranty of the rights of property, liberty of action, freedom of thought, religion...that kind of government that shall assure life liberty & the pursuit of happiness"?

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