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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. When discussing Jesse Beecher's service record, McPherson states that he fought in all BUT WHICH of the following states?
(a) Georgia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Virginia.

2. While talking about good-luck charms, McPherson notes there were few _____________ in the Civil War.
(a) Women.
(b) African Americans.
(c) Atheists.
(d) Mormons.

3. Officers appropriated comfortable houses while enlisted men froze in tents in Nashville during November 1864. From what state was the private who complained in his letters?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Tennessee.

4. 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 William T. Sherman.
(b) General George Brinton McClellan.
(c) General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
(d) General James Abram Garfield.

5. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that Union artilleryman John Billings wrote which of the following?
(a) Hard Tack and Coffee.
(b) Hard Marching Every Day.
(c) The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah.
(d) On the Altar of Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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?

3. When a young private predicted the bullet had not been made that would shoot him, McPherson notes he was correct because the private died in what prison?

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?

5. McPherson tells of a sergeant in the 20th Indiana during the Mine Run campaign who'd left _____________ to enlist.

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