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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, On the Altar of My Country.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a Pennsylvania cavalry corporal wrote his mother in 1863, he listed his obligations to duty. In what position did he place his obligation to his mother?
(a) 1st.
(b) 3rd.
(c) 2nd.
(d) 4th.

2. The end of "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined" says Civil War soldiers came from a society that prized all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Self-reliance.
(d) Obedience.

3. During the battle of Fair Oaks, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., swore he would shoot the first man who ran, in which of the following regiments?
(a) 12th Georgia.
(b) 5th Arkansas.
(c) 21st Texas.
(d) 20th Massachusetts.

4. When talking about the relationships between enlisted men and their officers, McPherson notes a major from which state who visited his sick and wounded soldiers every day?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Illinois.
(d) New York.

5. From which state was the sergeant, three times wounded, stationed near Vicksburg who described debates in his brigade during the winter of 1863-1964?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Texas.
(d) New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following Generals retrieved his character during the Battle of Fair Oaks?

2. After the battle of Seven Pines, a captain from which state wrote that he was fine as long as there was battle but that afterward he was quite sick for a few days?

3. After discussing how the language of soldiers in letters home is cliche today, McPherson says that which writer noted that World War I made words like "glory" mock-heroic?

4. When McPherson recounts the tale of James and John Welsh, he says that James moved to what state in 1853 and became a Republican?

5. During the discussion of primary group cohesion, a soldier in the 122nd New York wrote to his sister in response to how he kept going through all BUT WHICH of these battles?

(see the answer key)

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