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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marshall request of Longstreet?
(a) Speak to Lee on Stuart's behalf.
(b) Talk Lee into a frontal attack.
(c) Ask Lee to court-martial Stuart.
(d) Talk Lee into an attack on the right.

2. How does Lee think one wins victories?
(a) By attacking with courage and with faith.
(b) By knowing when to attack and when to retreat.
(c) By knowing one's enemy better than one's friends.
(d) By coming up with clever strategies.

3. Why is the slave shot?
(a) He assaults an officer.
(b) He asks directions from a white woman.
(c) He runs from the Confederate ranks.
(d) He tries to help another slave escape.

4. On whose eagerness for battle is Lee depending?
(a) Stuart and Pickett
(b) Longstreet and Rodes
(c) McLaws and Hood
(d) Ewell and Early

5. What does Longstreet think will be the outcome of this battle?
(a) The South will eventually lose the war.
(b) The South will come back to win more important battles.
(c) The North will have suffered too many casualties to finish the war.
(d) The surviving soldiers will draw more troops to them with their stories of courage.

6. What makes the Confederate troops turn back as they start to retreat?
(a) A regiment of Union soldiers that had come around behind them.
(b) Their own cannons pointed at them.
(c) The sight of the flag of Virginia still waving.
(d) The sight of Lee, bareheaded, on horseback.

7. What misconception, in Longstreet's opinion, does Fremantle have of Lee?
(a) He is brilliant at getting men to follow him.
(b) He is a devious tactician.
(c) He moves too quickly.
(d) He is as good a leader as any Englishman.

8. Why does Longstreet say Lee should put Hill in command instead of Longstreet?
(a) Hill earned the right with his victory the day before.
(b) Longstreet has come down with the old soldier's disease.
(c) Hill is better at this kind of assault.
(d) The men are mostly Hill's.

9. What prediction does Hancock make about the Rebels?
(a) They will concentrate on the left.
(b) They will retreat before noon.
(c) They will attack the right flank again.
(d) They will strike again, this time in the middle.

10. What does the Baptist minister say to Chamberlain about slavery?
(a) It is the mark of a doomed society.
(b) It is wrong according to the Bible and every man should fight it.
(c) There is nothing wrong with it provided the master treats the slave well.
(d) Chamberlain cannot understand it because he has never lived with the black man.

11. Where does Tom get the coffee that he brings to Chamberlain?
(a) From the regiment's rations
(b) From dead soldiers
(c) From Gen. Meade with his compliments
(d) From captured Rebel soldiers

12. What difficulty faces Longstreet?
(a) His horse lames himself, and Longstreet has to find another one.
(b) Not knowing the area well, he's forced to turn his troops around and lead a counter-march.
(c) He cannot focus on the battle because he keeps thinking about his dead children.
(d) His men lose confidence in his leadership and refuse to fight.

13. When the South seceded, why did Lee give up his position in the U.S. military?
(a) He could not fight against his own people.
(b) He believed strongly in the cause of the South.
(c) He was about to be removed from power anyway.
(d) His wife asked him to.

14. Which of these is NOT a reason Longstreet gives for why Meade will not attack?
(a) He will be reluctant to move without his full force.
(b) He will have orders from Washington not to attack.
(c) He has just arrived on the field and will not understand the position.
(d) He is General Meade.

15. From whom does the Confederacy get many of its guns and most of its wagons?
(a) Confederate factories
(b) France
(c) England
(d) The Union army

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Armistead want Pickett to do about Garnett?

2. What does Fremantle hope for after the war is over?

3. What does Chamberlain hope to get for his men very soon?

4. What happens to Kilrain in the battle?

5. The song "Kathleen Mavourneen" remind Armistead of ___________.

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