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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. 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) 21st Texas.
(b) 5th Arkansas.
(c) 12th Georgia.
(d) 20th Massachusetts.

2. 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) Virginia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) New York.

3. In his discussion of those soldiers who were not so heroic, McPherson mentions that these men were referred to as all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Snivelers.
(b) Skulkers.
(c) Sneaks.
(d) Stragglers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that Union artilleryman John Billings wrote which of the following?

2. Toward the end of "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," McPherson notes that men were shocked by war as most of them were in what age group?

3. 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?

4. In May 1861, a lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment wrote he would not enlist for a period longer than ________, unless his country needed him, in which case he'd enlist for life.

5. 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?

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