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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the topic of the book written by Mauriel Johnson?
(a) Slavery.
(b) The post war for the veterans of the Confederate army.
(c) Treatment of rebel prisoners by the North.
(d) The role of women in the war.

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

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

4. 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 days before Horwitz's book was written.
(b) A few month before Horwitz's book was written.
(c) A few years before Horwitz's book was written.
(d) A few decades before Horwitz's book was written.

5. What other prominent town of the Civil Right movement did Horwitz visit?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Chamville.
(c) Lincoln ville.
(d) Selma.

6. What did Betty Talmadge say of the locations in Gone with the Wind?
(a) They were rebuilt.
(b) They were destroyed.
(c) They were preserved.
(d) They are fictional.

7. Where did Hodge and Horwitz sleep?
(a) Bedding down in a field.
(b) In the car.
(c) In hotels.
(d) In their trailer.

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

9. What did Atlanta have a tradition of?
(a) Building large building.
(b) Moving forward quickly.
(c) Keeping its old buildings.
(d) Building with wood.

10. Who was Alberta Martin married to?
(a) William Jasper Martin.
(b) Robert Jasper Martin
(c) William Markus Martin
(d) Markus Robert Martin

11. How did Pail Hawke call people coming to the battlefield?
(a) Pilgrims.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Visitors.
(d) Historians.

12. Where was the city museum located?
(a) In the fire station.
(b) In the police station.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) In the courthouse building.

13. What made Wolfgang Hochbruck interested in the Civil War?
(a) Horwtiz's first book.
(b) His history teacher.
(c) The movie glory.
(d) Shelby Foote's novel about the Shiloh's battle.

14. 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.

15. When did Alberta's first husband die?
(a) 10 years after her marriage.
(b) 25 years after her marriage.
(c) 15 years after her marriage.
(d) 5 years after her marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. what did Horwitz learn about the owner of the local business that turned part of his store into a museum?

2. What did Horwitz find on both sides of Montgomery's history?

3. What were most of the Battlefields and memorial markers surrounded by?

4. What did Horwitz find similar about the stories of civil rights marchers and Confederates soldiers.?

5. Where did Gone with the Wind take place?

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