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

2. After the battle of Shiloh, which of the following Generals for the 53rd Ohio, promised his men--after an hour lecture--that they would fight with artillery behind them in the next battle?
(a) General William T. Sherman.
(b) General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
(c) General James Abram Garfield.
(d) General George Brinton McClellan.

3. 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) 3rd.
(b) 1st.
(c) 4th.
(d) 2nd.

4. In the discussion of the physiological effects of warfare, a chemical reaction in the adrenal gland causes which of the following to be released?
(a) Cortisol.
(b) Norepinephrine.
(c) Red blood cells.
(d) Glucose.

5. Soldiers in the discussion of military coercion stood firm under fire for the Prussian army under the command of ________ because they feared their officers more than the enemy.
(a) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(b) Frederick William I.
(c) Gerhard von Scharnhorst.
(d) Frederick the Great.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following states had the strongest convictions about the war, according to the descriptions of Southern motivations for war?

2. After the story from the soldier who experienced the glaze of war during the battle at Gaines Mill, McPherson notes that another term for this phenomenon is what?

3. Having discussed how the eagerness for battle faded, McPherson goes on to say that soldiers turned to the most pervasive presence: ________?

4. During the battle of Fredericksburg, from which state was the corporal who wrote his diary that he was sick, and if not for being thought a sneak, he wouldn't be in the ranks that day?

5. 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?

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