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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, We Know That We are Supported at Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Illinois.

2. In "Chapter 8: The Cause of Liberty," which immigrant group drew the clearest parallels between the fight for the Union and the fight for liberty in their home country?
(a) Italian Americans.
(b) German Americans.
(c) Russian Americans.
(d) Irish Americans.

3. From which state was the soldier who felt that religion was what made brave soldiers, during the discussion of Civil War faith?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Massachusetts.

4. During the discussion of primary group cohesion, a soldier in the 122nd New York wrote to his sister in response to how he kept going through all BUT WHICH of these battles?
(a) Petersburg.
(b) Cold Harbor.
(c) Pleasant Hill.
(d) Spotsylvania.

5. While talking about the difficulties wives left behind faced, McPherson mentions a sergeant in the 21st Ohio whose wife had written that "your country's cause is my cause." What was her name?
(a) Jenny.
(b) MaryAnn.
(c) Minie.
(d) Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the discussion of the Emancipation Proclamation, McPherson says that in his sample of Union soldiers, what percentage favored emancipation through the spring of 1863?

2. During the story of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, what is the name of the battle in which she fought?

3. After a Texas soldier wrote his wife in 1863 that he hoped a friend would shoot him if ever he showed the "white feather," he was killed during which of these battles?

4. While talking about the Emancipation Proclamation's effect on Union morale, McPherson says that, in comparison to enlisted men, what percentage of officers supported emancipation?

5. As "Chapter 2: We Were in Earnest" opens, McPherson says that another name for the Civil War is what?

(see the answer key)

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