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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 were reenactors who were not completely authentic in their costumes or behavior called?

2. Where did Foote live?

3. What was the central theme of the complaints by Southern people?

4. What did the black harbor pilot who hijacked a Confederate ship become?

5. What was the goal of the conspiracies Walt thought he uncovered?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Alberta Martin's husband?

3. How did Shelby Foote become known?

4. What happened in the old Montgomery Capitol?

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

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

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

8. Whose action did Foote defend to the amazement of Horwitz?

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

10. What event did Melly Meadows once win?

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

Essay Topic 3

Examine the significance of the Shiloh battle.

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