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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 "Chapter 2: We Were in Earnest" opens, McPherson says that another name for the Civil War is what?
(a) The Confederate War.
(b) The Union War.
(c) The Slavery War.
(d) The Brothers' War.

2. Officers appropriated comfortable houses while enlisted men froze in tents in Nashville during November 1864. From what state was the private who complained in his letters?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Georgia.

3. Which of the following was a major in the 19th Iowa, described in "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined," who would walk and let injured men ride his horse?
(a) Major Kit Chancellor.
(b) Major Myron Burroughs.
(c) Major Dan Kent.
(d) Major Tommy Byron.

4. As "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined" opens, which of the following is NOT a traditional means of motivating soldiers to fight?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Training.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Money.

5. When discussing the movie "Gettysburg" and the novel "The Killer Angels," McPherson mentions which man who won the medal of honor for defending Little Big Top?
(a) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
(b) William E. Miller.
(c) Henry J. Minnigh.
(d) Charles Evans Roberts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that James Gooding, a black soldier in the 54th Massachusetts, wrote which of the following?

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?

3. In the discussion of the "fighting drunk" terminology, Confederate soldiers were accused of an unlikely combination of whiskey and what?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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