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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. When McPherson and his cousin visit the four Civil War battlefields near Fredericksburg, Virginia, he notes that it is the day after which of the following holidays?
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Easter.

2. As McPherson recounts the experience of Patrick Cronan, he says that Cronan was a "street bully" who was eventually court martialed and made to wear a board with what word?
(a) Skunk.
(b) Yankee.
(c) Coward.
(d) Traitor.

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

4. Which of the following states had the strongest convictions about the war, according to the descriptions of Southern motivations for war?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

5. 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) Illinois.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. When McPherson talks about the ways in which the eagerness for battle was not unique to Civil War soldiers, he mentions the same phenomenon during which war?

2. 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?

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?

4. As McPherson talks about the literacy rates during the Civil War, he says that what percentage of Union soldiers were literate?

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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