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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the discussion of "short-timers" psychology, the author notes the pride and honor of a soldier were bound up with the pride and honor of all BUT WHICH of these?
(a) Family.
(b) State.
(c) Nation.
(d) Regiment.

2. Between May 5 and June 22, 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia experienced casualties amounting to what percent of their original strength?
(a) 60%.
(b) 95%.
(c) 38%.
(d) 49%.

3. 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"?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) New York.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. When talking about the frustrations of Union soldiers in the last two years of the war, what amount do readers learn drafted men could pay to acquire a substitute?
(a) $300.
(b) $900.
(c) $50.
(d) $150.

5. While talking about historically and politically famous individuals who fought the Civil War, McPherson mentions which of the following Ohio Republican leaders?
(a) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) William McKinley.
(c) James A. Garfield.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the discussion of the hardships for soldiers' wives, what percentage of officers does McPherson say were married in his sample?

2. On July 1, 1864, a captain for the 103rd Illinois wrote that it was day sixty-two for his regiment, and that they'd spent how many of those days under fire?

3. 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?

4. As McPherson describes how soldiers on both sides were spoiling for a fight, he mentions an expression denoting exciting experiences: see the _________?

5. After the three month Peninsula campaign, a Pennsylvania private wrote that he had lived on how many crackers from Thursday through Monday?

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