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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the New York Tribune, what percentage of military arrests are unjustified?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 35 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 90 percent.

2. Why is district attorney Ezra B. Chase arrested in Chapter 3?
(a) For breaking up a recruitment rally.
(b) For advising people to demand a peaceful settlement at the polls.
(c) For selling alcohol to Union troops.
(d) For warning recruits they will go to hell.

3. Who runs against Lincoln in the 1864 election?
(a) John V. L. Pruyn.
(b) Sidney Cromwell.
(c) George B. McClellan.
(d) Clement Vallandingham.

4. According to Colonel F. C. Ainsworth's study, how many civilian prisoners were detained during the Civil War?
(a) 13,535.
(b) 112,000.
(c) 5,000-10,000.
(d) 38,000.

5. To which military and political leader does James Bryce liken President Lincoln?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Oliver Cromwell.
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Old Capitol prison?

2. Dennis A. Mahony is editor of which newspaper in Chapter 3?

3. According to President Lincoln, why would many civilian detainees have been in prison even with the right of habeas corpus?

4. Which former President is almost arrested for being a Southern sympathizer during the Civil War?

5. Which unpopular bill does Congress pass on July 17, 1862?

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