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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Anxious for the Fray.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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?
(a) Liberty.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Life.
(d) Property.
2. When McPherson recounts the tale of James and John Welsh, he says that James moved to what state in 1853 and became a Republican?
(a) Maine.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Illinois.
3. 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.
(a) 9 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 3 months.
4. As McPherson discusses the initial impulse that prompted men to enlist on both sides after the raid on Fort Sumter he references which of the following French terms?
(a) Folie.
(b) Rage militaire.
(c) Combattre pret.
(d) Vide en haut.
5. During his visit to the four Civil War battlefields near Fredericksburg, McPherson thinks about the fighting that happened on May 12, 1864; for how many hours did the battle last?
(a) 27.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 4.
Short Answer Questions
1. After the battle of Fredericksburg, the 10th New York had fought six battles in as many months and had lost all but how many men?
2. As the book opens, McPherson says that he took some Princeton students to Gettysburg in the spring of what year?
3. How many children does McPherson report that Jesse Beecher had when he enlisted with the 112th New York in 1862?
4. When McPherson says that grousing about war has long been a soldier's privilege, he notes an officer from which state who wrote that these "soldiers will fight like bull dogs"?
5. In the explanation of the Rebel Yell, McPherson quotes a soldier from which state who had said he would never yell during battle, but had anyway?
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