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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the dead of Andersonville buried?
(a) The bodies were sent back to their family.
(b) In the local cemetary.
(c) The bodies where burried in the wall.
(d) In trenched graves.

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

3. Where was Jimmy Olgers' store located?
(a) Near New Orleans.
(b) Near Petersburg.
(c) Near Gettysburg.
(d) Near the Potomac.

4. What did Horwitz tell Hodge he wanted to travel as?
(a) A Union Soldier.
(b) A General.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A Confederate soldier.

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

6. What was the name of the first man Horwitz meet on the battlefield?
(a) Mark Robertson.
(b) Roberto Smill.
(c) Markus stall.
(d) Bryson Powers.

7. What was Horwitz surprised to learn about Alabama's history curriculum?
(a) The Civil War was half the program.
(b) The Civil War was tought as seen by the South.
(c) The Civil War was not part of it.
(d) The Civil War was less than one week of courses.

8. Where did Hodge meet his girlfriend?
(a) Through a friend.
(b) At a concern.
(c) At the restaurant he works at.
(d) At a bar.

9. What was the name of the park with the faces of Generals Lee and Jackson and Confederate President Jefferson Davis carved?
(a) Hero park.
(b) Confederate Park.
(c) Stone Mountain.
(d) Victory Park.

10. What did Mauriel Johnson studied?
(a) Diaries and letters of northdern women writting to Union prisoners.
(b) Diaries and letters of northdern women writting to Confederate prisoners.
(c) Diaries and letters of southdern women writting to Union prisoners.
(d) Diaries and letters of southdern women writting to Confederate prisoners.

11. When does the curriculum for history start on the State of Alabama?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1972.

12. How was the girl impregnated according to the Minie Ball Pregnancy story?
(a) By a Union soldier.
(b) By a bullet going through the testicul of a soldier and striking her in the abdomen.
(c) In a pool.
(d) By a Confederate soldier.

13. What was late in April 1862?
(a) Tax returns.
(b) School vacations.
(c) The annual reenactment.
(d) Spring.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the commander of the Andersonville prison?

2. What charge did Hodge and his men plan to recreate?

3. What was Vicksburg the site of?

4. Where did Vicksburg located according to Chapter 9?

5. How much was Alberta's husband's pension?

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