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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 Alabama: Only Living Confederate Widow Tells Some.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Children of the Confederacy teach children about?
(a) The virtue of slavery.
(b) Racism.
(c) The major battle won by the Confederacy.
(d) Perceived treachery of the North.

2. What was the repercussion of the Minie Ball Pregnancy story at the time?
(a) The doctor that came up with the story was killed.
(b) The local Union Garrison was attacked.
(c) The local population rebelled.
(d) It ruined the career of the physician who came up with the story.

3. Why was Michael Westerman allegedly killed?
(a) He was a preacher.
(b) He was black.
(c) Displaying a Confederate flag.
(d) He was a teacher.

4. What was the central theme of the complaints by Southern people?
(a) The North took all the good lands.
(b) The South was oppressed politically and economically.
(c) The political power lay in the North.
(d) The South had not enough economical help.

5. What did the black students of the local high school wear?
(a) Caps with an X on it.
(b) Caps with L.
(c) Caps with M on it.
(d) Caps with KKK with a donkey on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ed and Sue Curtis stop doing?

2. What did the caps of the local high school student celebrate?

3. What seemed impossible to Horwitz 130 years after the war?

4. Who did the war empower according to the woman who took over the Confederate museum?

5. Who was the commander of the Andersonville prison?

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