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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought Horwitz to the statue?

2. What did the caps of the local high school student celebrate?

3. When was Charleston settled?

4. What did Horwitz paint on his wall?

5. What did the men Horwitz join consider reenactment as?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was peculiar about the monument to the memory of Confederate soldiers in Kingstree according to Chapter 4?

3. Who introduced Horwitz to the Civil War according to Chapter 1?

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

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

6. Why did Horwitz see a contradiction between the South's perceived oppression and the reality?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how a person could be attracted to the ideal of freedom in the Confederacy knowing what it stood for.

Essay Topic 2

Examine and contrast why people in the South would feel oppressed when their economy is flourishing and one of their kin is President of the United States.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the Star Spangled Banner.

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