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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 did Horwitz do most of the day?
(a) Run.
(b) Treat wounds.
(c) Lay down and chat.
(d) Sleep.

2. What did CCC mean?
(a) Council of Concerned Citizens.
(b) Council of Concerned Citizens.
(c) Council of Concerned Citizens.
(d) Council of Concerned Citizens.

3. Where did Horwtiz's grandfather come from?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Ireland.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Horwitz of Sue Curtis?

2. Why did Horwitz not have much to do?

3. What would Horwitz's host have called the men Horwitz joined?

4. What did Horwitz paint on his wall?

5. What did Foote and Horwitz spend several hours discussing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event opened the Civil War according to Chapter 3?

2. What famous event was the turning point of the Shiloh battle?

3. What did Horwitz and his father do after the latter's retirement?

4. What did Children of the Confederacy teach children?

5. What did the rebel flag represent to some people?

6. What did some of the Confederate groups say about William Martin?

7. What surprised Horwitz about the Alabama school curriculum?

8. What did Horwitz do prior to going to the reenactment according to Chapter 6?

9. What did Foote do during his visits of the Shiloh battlefield?

10. How long did Horwitz spend researching for his book according to Chapter 15?

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