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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. During the discussion of leadership, a captain in the 1st North Carolina told his daughter ___________ that he would not be a tree dodger.
(a) Annie.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Mary
(d) Lily.

2. In the discussion of the battle energy, an anemic Yale graduate--who later died at 26--recounted that the double-quick was not a fast enough pace; what disease did the man have?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Bright's disease.

3. 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) 18.
(b) 4.
(c) 27.
(d) 9.

4. An experience at Gaines Mill on June 27, 1862, where the Union line slowly began to leak stragglers, was described by a corporal from which state?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Illinois.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

5. After the battle of Shiloh, which of the following Generals for the 53rd Ohio, promised his men--after an hour lecture--that they would fight with artillery behind them in the next battle?
(a) General George Brinton McClellan.
(b) General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
(c) General James Abram Garfield.
(d) General William T. Sherman.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which state was the soldier who wrote religious poetry while lying in the trenches, during the battle of Vicksburg?

2. 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?

3. When McPherson recounts the tale of James and John Welsh, he says that James moved to what state in 1853 and became a Republican?

4. From which state was the soldier who felt that religion was what made brave soldiers, during the discussion of Civil War faith?

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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