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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the CCC fight against?
(a) Plans to remove the Confederate flag from the capitol building.
(b) Plans to teach about the Civil War in school.
(c) Plans to allow African American to vote.
(d) Plans to allow desegregated bathrooms.

2. How was Westerman killed?
(a) He was stabbed.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He was run over.
(d) He was strangled.

3. Where was Joel Dorfman from?
(a) New York.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Washington D.C.

4. What did Horwitz plan on doing?
(a) Make a trip to the site himself.
(b) Try to disprove Foote's asumptions.
(c) Find an interesting battlefield to go to.
(d) Ready Foote's book.

5. What did the farm owner give Horwitz to replace his plastic glasses?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Two magnifying glasses.
(c) Bare lenses.
(d) Wire-rimmed glasses.

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

7. How was Horwitz awakened one time according to Chapter 1?
(a) By police sirens.
(b) By the fire department.
(c) By cannon fire.
(d) By gunfire.

8. How many Jews did Walt meet before Horwitz ?
(a) 3.
(b) none.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

9. How did the Ku Klux Klan see Westerman?
(a) As one of their own.
(b) As a traitor.
(c) As a martyr for the noble Southern causee.
(d) As an annomaly.

10. Where did Horwitz's host spend the night?
(a) in a tent.
(b) In the rain.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) In his car.

11. When did Horwitz's grandfather arrive in America according to Chapter 1?
(a) 1880s.
(b) 1900s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1910s.

12. What was Horwitz surprised to hear Foote defend?
(a) Slaves ownership.
(b) That the south was oppressed.
(c) Some actions of the Southerners after the war.
(d) Racism.

13. What did the meeting with Sue Curtis open with?
(a) The pledge.
(b) A Ku Klux Klan pledge.
(c) Honoring the Confederate flag.
(d) With drinks.

14. What did Ed and Sue Curtis stop doing?
(a) Answering their phone.
(b) Going to church.
(c) Going to the supermarket.
(d) Seeing friends.

15. When did the Civil War start?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Foote frequently visit the battlefield?

2. What did the men of the CCC feel the Confederate flag represented?

3. What did Horwitz plan when he got back home?

4. What would Foote do during the day at the battlefield?

5. What did Horwitz do most of the day?

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