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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 plan on doing?
(a) Try to disprove Foote's asumptions.
(b) Find an interesting battlefield to go to.
(c) Ready Foote's book.
(d) Make a trip to the site himself.

2. What did the CCC fight against?
(a) Plans to remove the Confederate flag from the capitol building.
(b) Plans to teach about the Civil War in school.
(c) Plans to allow desegregated bathrooms.
(d) Plans to allow African American to vote.

3. What did Walt protest in his youth?
(a) Tution cost.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Racism.
(d) The Vietnam war.

4. What did Horwitz admire in Walt?
(a) His commitment.
(b) His iconoclasm.
(c) His eloquence.
(d) His confidence.

5. What group was founded after the Civil War and re-emerged in the early 20th century?
(a) The Daughters of the Confederacy.
(b) The Cats of the Confederacy.
(c) The Sons of the Confederacy.
(d) The Ku Klux Klan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many groups were formed for trivia questions during Sue Curtis' meeting?

2. What did Ed and Sue Curtis stop doing?

3. Why did Horwitz not have much to do?

4. What did the farm owner give Horwitz to replace his plastic glasses?

5. What did Jamie Westendorf point out the old locations of in Charleston?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Hodge's group go and tend one of the "wounded"?

2. Why was Horwitz thrown out of the bar in Chapter 5?

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

4. What happened to the dead during and after the battle of Shiloh?

5. What surprised Horwitz about the Alabama school curriculum?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Horwitz say of some of the people feeling pride toward the Confederacy?

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