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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, A Band of Brothers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As McPherson recounts the experience of Patrick Cronan, he says that Cronan was a "street bully" who was eventually court martialed and made to wear a board with what word?
(a) Coward.
(b) Skunk.
(c) Traitor.
(d) Yankee.

2. 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) Georgia.
(d) North Carolina.

3. When McPherson recounts the tale of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, what name does he say she enlisted under?
(a) Lyons Wakeman.
(b) Lyons Rose.
(c) Thomas Lyons.
(d) Teddy Wakefield.

4. During the Bristoe campaign, from which state was the sergeant who disobeyed a surgeon's order to go to the hospital because he was afraid of the suspicion attached?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Kentucky.

5. As the book opens, McPherson says that he took some Princeton students to Gettysburg in the spring of what year?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1993.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a Texas soldier wrote his wife in 1863 that he hoped a friend would shoot him if ever he showed the "white feather," he was killed during which of these battles?

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

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?

4. When a Quaker captain in the 5th New Jersey was threatened to be turned out of his faith if he did not resign, he found he could not leave and was later killed in which battle?

5. After the attack on Fort Sumter, all BUT WHICH of the following states joined the other seven Southern states that had seceded prior to April, 1861?

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