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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the discussion of Southern propaganda, a planter wrote his wife of the defense of innocent women from the "lecherous Northern hirelings." From which state was this soldier?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Maryland.

2. In July 1861, what battle caused Northern volunteers to flock to the army?
(a) Chancellorville.
(b) Shiloh.
(c) Bull Run.
(d) Gettysburg.

3. As McPherson discusses religion's role in the Civil War, he notes that a lieutenant from New Jersey who fought in the conflict was what religion?
(a) Mormon.
(b) Quaker.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Atheist.

4. McPherson tells of a sergeant in the 20th Indiana during the Mine Run campaign who'd left _____________ to enlist.
(a) Politics.
(b) Farming.
(c) Medical school.
(d) Fiancee.

5. While talking about religious fatalism, McPherson says that more soldiers were practical Arminians than strict __________________.
(a) Fatalists.
(b) Predestinations.
(c) Protestants.
(d) Calvinists.

Short Answer Questions

1. The end of "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined" says Civil War soldiers came from a society that prized all BUT WHICH of the following?

2. In his discussion of duty, what does McPherson say Confederate soldiers are more likely to speak of?

3. During the discussion of religion, from which state was the private who wrote in 1861 that he wanted to put down the rebellion but hoped the war would end without him having to kill anybody?

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

5. As McPherson begins to describe the training regimen kept by soldiers, he quotes a young man from Indiana who wrote what relative, complaining a soldier "is not his own man"?

(see the answer key)

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