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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 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?
(a) World War I.
(b) Vietnam War.
(c) World War II.
(d) Revolutionary War.

2. Which of the following was a favorite word of Confederate recruits, during the discussion of their perceived fate, if the South were to be forced back into the Union?
(a) Subjugation.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Bigotry.
(d) Injustice.

3. A private from which state recounted an amazing amount of energy while describing the battle of Gaines Mill?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Texas.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Tennessee.

4. McPherson quotes a sergeant who had spent the first twenty months of service guarding railroad bridges, as being disgusted with the lack of action. Which state was he from?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Illinois.

5. 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?
(a) 130.
(b) 240.
(c) 68.
(d) 320.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the discussion of the physiological effects of warfare, a chemical reaction in the adrenal gland causes which of the following to be released?

3. 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?

4. As McPherson talks about the literacy rates during the Civil War, he says that what percentage of Union soldiers were literate?

5. In "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," soldiers on both sides were afraid the war would be over before they had a chance to do anything, a fear written by a recruit from which regiment?

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