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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. What did the Children of the Confederacy teach children about?

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

3. What did Horwitz plan when he got back home?

4. What was Redbone's Saloon according to Chapter 5?

5. What did Horwitz do most of the day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprised Horwitz about the Alabama school curriculum?

2. What famous novel did Margaret Mitchell write according to Chapter 11?

3. What decision did Horwitz make concerning his trip with Hodge?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What event did Melly Meadows once win?

10. Who was Shelby Foote according to Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine what sharecropping was in the early 1900's.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how a person's political views could shift from left to extreme right as they age.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Civil War and the reasons it shaped American psyche.

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