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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Johnson's main goal with her book?
(a) Balancing the "Myths" about Andersonville.
(b) Telling the story of the children of the war.
(c) Telling the story of the women during the war.
(d) Balancing the "Myths" about the Union victories.

2. Who wrote "Gone with the Wind" according to Chapter 11?
(a) Margaret Mitchell.
(b) Charles Supp.
(c) Annie Robertson.
(d) Robert Patrick.

3. What were Rose Sanders and her husband known for?
(a) For being controversial local activists.
(b) For being good teacher.
(c) For being the head of the boy and girls club.
(d) For being the local historians.

4. Who was sworn in as president in the old capitol?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Robert Patrick.

5. Why was Alberta's husband hospitalized?
(a) Rubella.
(b) Variolla.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Scorbut.

6. What drifted away from Vicksburg in the years before the Civil War?
(a) The frontiere.
(b) The garrison.
(c) The Confederate Army.
(d) The Mississippi river bed.

7. Who did Hodge and Horwitz attract as they walked in the park?
(a) Boys.
(b) Retirees.
(c) Police officer.
(d) Girls.

8. where were the dead at Shiloh buried ?
(a) They were left where they fell.
(b) In a common graveyard 2 miles out.
(c) In trenches near where they fell.
(d) They were cremated.

9. When was Fitzgerald founded?
(a) In the 1850's.
(b) In the 1870's.
(c) In the 1890's.
(d) In the 1860's.

10. What seemed impossible to Horwitz 130 years after the war?
(a) That the widow of a soldier was alive.
(b) That a widow would not try to get on a TV show.
(c) That the war was forgotten.
(d) That children of veterans were alive.

11. What was the sculpture in the park used as the backdrop for?
(a) The american flag.
(b) Pictures of the War.
(c) A laser show.
(d) The Confederate flag.

12. Where was the first man Horwitz meet from?
(a) Denver.
(b) Minneapolis.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Washington D.C.

13. When did the woman believed to have been the last surviving widow of a Civil War soldier die according to Horwitz 's research?
(a) A few years before Horwitz's book was written.
(b) A few days before Horwitz's book was written.
(c) A few month before Horwitz's book was written.
(d) A few decades before Horwitz's book was written.

14. When was Gone with the Wind made into a movie?
(a) In the 1940's.
(b) In the 1930's.
(c) In the 1950's.
(d) In the 1960's.

15. What did Horwitz argue Rose Sanders used the same way as the Confederacy?
(a) Fear.
(b) Racial rhetoric.
(c) Partial education.
(d) Twisted logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the curriculum for history start on the State of Alabama?

2. What was the birth name of Albert Cashire?

3. How did Pail Hawke call people coming to the battlefield?

4. When did Hodge and Horwitz leave for the trip?

5. What did Alberta's husband do after being released from the hospital?

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