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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 CCC mean?

2. Where did Horwitz decide to start his travel with according to Chapter 2?

3. Who was Shelby Foote according to Chapter 7?

4. What battlefield did Foote visit frequently?

5. Where did Foote live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Horwitz disturbed by at the start of the trip?

2. What does Horwitz say of some of the people feeling pride toward the Confederacy?

3. Why did Alberta Martin marry her first husband?

4. What was Mauriel Johnson's book a counterbalance of?

5. What were the men who woke up Horwtiz one morning doing?

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

7. How long did Horwitz spend researching for his book according to Chapter 15?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role and fate of Atlanta during the Civil War.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why a victim of racism would use the same rhetoric against another group.

Essay Topic 3

Examine why would communities of a same town celebrate their veterans on different days.

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