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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. 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) Tennessee.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.

2. During the discussion of "short-timers" psychology in the Union army, what was the name of the rule that prevented this phenomenon in the Confederate army?
(a) Congress of Confederates.
(b) Southern Congress.
(c) Richmond Confederacy.
(d) Richmond Congress.

3. Toward the end of "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," McPherson notes that men were shocked by war as most of them were in what age group?
(a) 20s.
(b) 30s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 60s.

4. According to the quote from John W. DeForest in "Chapter 1: This War is a Crusade," the man who does not dread to die or be mutilated is a what?
(a) Young.
(b) Hero.
(c) Religious.
(d) Lunatic.

5. Toward the end of "Chapter 6: A Band of Brothers," McPherson quotes which of the following theorists in relation to ideal primary groups?
(a) Edward Millicent.
(b) J.R. Merkins.
(c) Omar Bartov.
(d) William Jennings.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the discussion of "short-timers" psychology, the author notes the pride and honor of a soldier were bound up with the pride and honor of all BUT WHICH of these?

2. When discussing soldiers not eager to fight, McPherson says derogatory comments about these men came from officers who had enlisted for all BUT WHICH of these reasons?

3. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that Union artilleryman John Billings wrote which of the following?

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

5. When discussing Southern motives for fighting, McPherson mentions a farmer in the 26th Tennessee who said that all BUT WHICH of the following were at stake?

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