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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 test their guns?
(a) By firing them.
(b) By replacing them.
(c) By reloading them.
(d) By burning them.

2. How does Palmer's father lose an arm?
(a) Fighting in Texas.
(b) Gambling.
(c) In a cotton gin.
(d) At the lumber mill.

3. Who writes a letter for Confederate commanders to read to their troops as they march toward battle in Chapter 1?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Grant.
(d) Johnston.

4. Who describes the condition of the Confederate soldiers as they march in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Johnston.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Palmer.
(d) Jefferson.

5. In Chapter 1, who is in favor of canceling the Confederate attack?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Johnston.
(c) Forrest.
(d) Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palmer call the Confederate army from the vantage point of a ridge in Chapter 1?

2. Whose mother dies in childbirth?

3. What does the Union noise that Johnston hears in Chapter 1 signify?

4. Where was Palmer when the Confederacy seceded from the Union?

5. Who killed the animal that the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 see and shoot at during their march?

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