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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. During the Bristoe campaign, from which state was the sergeant who disobeyed a surgeon's order to go to the hospital because he was afraid of the suspicion attached?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Virginia.

2. When an immigrant worker in a Philadelphia textile mill wrote to his father to explain his enlistment, he said if secession were allowed, the United States might end up worse than what country?
(a) Poland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

3. In the discussion of the "fighting drunk" terminology, Confederate soldiers were accused of an unlikely combination of whiskey and what?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) Acid.
(c) Tobacco leaves.
(d) Water.

4. In "Chapter 7: On the Altar of my Country," how did soldiers frequently misspell the word "altar"?
(a) Atlar.
(b) Alterr.
(c) Alter.
(d) Alttar.

5. After the discussion of "short-timers" psychology, McPherson notes what percentage of 3-year enlisted Union soldiers from 1861 reenlisted?
(a) 75%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 100%.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. As McPherson discusses the officer in the 4th Alabama, who was determined to fight a "black republican" leader, he reveals that leader is what relation to him?

3. 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?

4. As McPherson discusses the initial impulse that prompted men to enlist on both sides after the raid on Fort Sumter he references which of the following French terms?

5. In "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," soldiers on both sides were afraid the war would be over before they had a chance to do anything, a fear written by a recruit from which regiment?

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