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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. 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?
(a) 20s.
(b) 30s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 60s.

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

3. Which of the following Generals retrieved his character during the Battle of Fair Oaks?
(a) General Lewis Armistead.
(b) General Willis Gorman.
(c) General James Thomas.
(d) General Mercer Tomlinson.

4. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that James Gooding, a black soldier in the 54th Massachusetts, wrote which of the following?
(a) Hard Marching Every Day.
(b) On The Altar of Freedom.
(c) Hard Tack and Coffee.
(d) The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah.

5. 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) 11.
(c) 53.
(d) 48.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. As the excitement for battle raced across the country, the governor of Ohio said he could not send the requested thirteen regiments but would send how many?

4. When an immigrant worker in a Philadelphia textile mill wrote to his father to explain his enlistment, he said if secession were allowed, the United States might end up worse than what country?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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