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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. How did Horwitz travel at the start of Chapter 3?
(a) On a car.
(b) On a train.
(c) On a plane.
(d) On a boat.

2. What did the Children of the Confederacy teach children about?
(a) Racism.
(b) The major battle won by the Confederacy.
(c) Perceived treachery of the North.
(d) The virtue of slavery.

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

4. When did Horwitz's grandfather arrive in America according to Chapter 1?
(a) 1900s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) 1890s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the CCC fight against?

2. When did Foote usually arrive at the battlefield?

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

4. What was the name of the owner of the farm the march was on?

5. Who did the war empower according to the woman who took over the Confederate museum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the African American congressman Joe McGill tell Horwtiz about what happened to him during the war?

2. What ceremonies did African Americans and Whites commemorate the Civil War soldiers with in Vicksburg?

3. What were Hodge's "Civil Wargasm" according to Chapter 10?

4. What surprised Horwitz about the Alabama school curriculum?

5. What was special about the history of Fitzgerald after the war?

6. What was the first major battle of the war known as?

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

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

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

10. Why did Horwitz spend most of his first day at the reenactment lying on the ground?

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