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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 Foote and Horwitz spend several hours discussing?
(a) The fascination of the South for the Civil War.
(b) The major generals of the civil War.
(c) The major battles of the Civil War.
(d) The causes of the Civil War.

2. Who was Horwitz's host dressed as?
(a) A journalist.
(b) A private.
(c) A medic.
(d) A general.

3. How was Westerman killed?
(a) He was run over.
(b) He was stabbed.
(c) He was strangled.
(d) He was shot.

4. What did Mike Hawkins' great great grandfather lose during the Civil War?
(a) A leg.
(b) An eye.
(c) A foot.
(d) An arm.

5. What did the farm owner give Horwitz to replace his plastic glasses?
(a) Bare lenses.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Two magnifying glasses.
(d) Wire-rimmed glasses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Foote live?

2. How did the Ku Klux Klan see Westerman?

3. How did Horwitz travel at the start of Chapter 3?

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

5. What group was founded after the Civil War and re-emerged in the early 20th century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What prompted the group of African American to harass Michael Westerman?

6. What did Horwitz say about Sanders' rhetoric?

7. What struck Horwitz as odd about Kentucky's identification to the Confederacy?

8. Who made up the story of the Minie Ball Pregnancy?

9. What surprised Horwitz about the Alabama school curriculum?

10. Why did Alberta Martin marry her first husband?

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