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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thursday, July 2, 1863, The Second Day, Chapter 5, Longstreet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question continues to occasionally plague Chamberlain?
(a) What if it is he who is wrong?
(b) What is more important, his duty to his men or his duty to his country?
(c) How could one man take up arms against another?
(d) What is this war really about?

2. What is the difficulty Lee's army has with being in Pennsylvania?
(a) They are now invaders of enemy territory.
(b) They cannot get messages to Confederacy headquarters.
(c) They have no maps of the state.
(d) They are too far from their supply line.

3. Whose advice has Lee taken regarding strategy?
(a) McLaws
(b) Ewell and Early
(c) Pickett and Hood
(d) Longstreet

4. Who arrives at headquarters?
(a) Longstreet
(b) McClellan
(c) Meade
(d) Chamberlain

5. Pickett concerned about ___________.
(a) How to get letters to his fiancee in the fastest manner.
(b) Being placed last in line in an important battle.
(c) His honor if the Confederates lose this battle.
(d) Losing too many men to continue fighting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "The Cause" for Longstreet?

2. What is described as "that ripply sound that raised the hair, that high thin scream from far away... terrible, inhuman"?

3. What does Lee tell Taylor to do with the blind horse?

4. What does Fremantle think the war is really about?

5. What is Longstreet's opinion of the South's invasion of the North?

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