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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. 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"?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Virginia.

2. As McPherson talks about the literacy rates during the Civil War, he says that what percentage of Union soldiers were literate?
(a) 30%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 65%.

3. In the discussion of the officers' views on training, which of the following did a captain in the 85th New York NOT believe would get men to fight well?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Drill.
(c) Food.
(d) Leadership.

4. McPherson quotes a sergeant who had spent the first twenty months of service guarding railroad bridges, as being disgusted with the lack of action. Which state was he from?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Indiana.

5. 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?
(a) Sewell's Point.
(b) Pleasant Hill.
(c) Fort Donelson.
(d) Stones River.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that John Haley of Maine wrote which of the following?

2. In July 1861, what battle caused Northern volunteers to flock to the army?

3. 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?

4. In his discussion of those soldiers who were not so heroic, McPherson mentions that these men were referred to as all BUT WHICH of the following?

5. During the battle of Fredericksburg, from which state was the corporal who wrote his diary that he was sick, and if not for being thought a sneak, he wouldn't be in the ranks that day?

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