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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. While talking about historically and politically famous individuals who fought the Civil War, McPherson mentions which of the following Ohio Republican leaders?
(a) James A. Garfield.
(b) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) William McKinley.

2. 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?
(a) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Russia.

3. When McPherson and his cousin visit the four Civil War battlefields near Fredericksburg, Virginia, he notes that it is the day after which of the following holidays?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Labor Day.
(d) Thanksgiving.

4. As "Chapter 2: We Were in Earnest" opens, McPherson says that another name for the Civil War is what?
(a) The Confederate War.
(b) The Slavery War.
(c) The Brothers' War.
(d) The Union War.

5. In May 1864 the 7th New York was delighted to be ordered into action; they were less excited nine months later after having lost how many men?
(a) 147.
(b) 309.
(c) 98.
(d) 291.

Short Answer Questions

1. As "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined" opens, which of the following is NOT a traditional means of motivating soldiers to fight?

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?

3. Soldiers from all BUT WHICH of the following states are mentioned in the discussion of green recruits who wanted to prove their manhood through battle?

4. A private in the 1st Virginia reported, after the battle of Sharpsburg, that a man in the 24th Virginia was whipped publicly for cowardice; how many lashes did the man receive?

5. By 1863, McPherson states, trouble and sorrow in the dis-United States was almost beyond calculation, as the war had claimed how many lives?

(see the answer key)

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