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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, If I Flinched, I Was Ruined.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the book opens, McPherson says that he took some Princeton students to Gettysburg in the spring of what year?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1976.

2. In his discussion of duty, what does McPherson say Confederate soldiers are more likely to speak of?
(a) Reputation.
(b) Family.
(c) Honor.
(d) Class.

3. When a captain from the 1st Connecticut Cavalry wrote about soldiers who shirk their duty, he said that in the company of sixty men only how many were in line?
(a) 32.
(b) 48.
(c) 53.
(d) 11.

4. In May 1864 the 7th New York was delighted to be ordered into action; they were less excited nine months later after having lost how many men?
(a) 98.
(b) 309.
(c) 147.
(d) 291.

5. In July 1861, what battle caused Northern volunteers to flock to the army?
(a) Gettysburg.
(b) Chancellorville.
(c) Bull Run.
(d) Shiloh.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. McPherson quotes a sergeant who had spent the first twenty months of service guarding railroad bridges, as being disgusted with the lack of action. Which state was he from?

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

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?

5. When discussing Southern motives for fighting, McPherson mentions a farmer in the 26th Tennessee who said that all BUT WHICH of the following were at stake?

(see the answer key)

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