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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Slavery Must be Cleaned Out.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which state was the major whose letter home during the summer of 1862 contained the line "slavery must be cleaned out," from which the title of the chapter was inspired?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Massachusetts.

2. A private from which state recounted an amazing amount of energy while describing the battle of Gaines Mill?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Texas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Tennessee.

3. Soldiers from all BUT WHICH of the following states are mentioned in the discussion of green recruits who wanted to prove their manhood through battle?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Illinois.

4. After the battle of Fredericksburg, which famous writer visited his brother, a lieutenant in the 51st New York, after the man had been wounded?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Upton Sinclair.

5. In the explanation of the Rebel Yell, McPherson quotes a soldier from which state who had said he would never yell during battle, but had anyway?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," McPherson notes that men were shocked by war as most of them were in what age group?

2. An experience at Gaines Mill on June 27, 1862, where the Union line slowly began to leak stragglers, was described by a corporal from which state?

3. In the discussion of Bell Wiley's study of Billy Yank, how many Union soldiers were interested in emancipation out of every ten surveyed?

4. During the discussion of the issues that arose from the Emancipation Proclamation, McPherson says that it sparked a moral crisis in the Union armies during the winter of what year(s)?

5. In the discussion of the Emancipation Proclamation, McPherson says that in his sample of Union soldiers, what percentage favored emancipation through the spring of 1863?

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