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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would Foote do during the day at the battlefield?
(a) Stay on the location of the commanding post.
(b) Take picture from a ventage point.
(c) Read a book.
(d) Walk the battlefield following the events of the day.

3. What was Westerman's killer sentenced to?
(a) 25 years to life.
(b) 10 to 25 years.
(c) Death.
(d) Life in prison.

4. What battle was to be reennacted?
(a) The battle fo Bull Run.
(b) The battle of Shiloh.
(c) The scond battle of Manassas.
(d) The Battle of the Wilderness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did CCC mean?

3. What was Shelby Foote well known for appearing in?

4. Where did Foote live?

5. Where did Westerman stop before being shot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mauriel Johnson study according to Chapter 12?

2. What did Horwitz say about his interest in the Civil War?

3. How did Shelby Foote become known?

4. What was unique about Henry Wirz's fate?

5. Why can't tourists find the locations in the "Gone with the Wind" book?

6. What groups were the Curtis' involved with?

7. What was Mauriel Johnson's book a counterbalance of?

8. What was Vicksburg at the start of the Civil War according to Chapter 9?

9. Why was Horwtiz fascinated by the Shiloh battle as a child according to Chapter 8?

10. What park has a sculpture of major Confederate figures carved?

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