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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Cause of Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When talking about how some soldiers' wives felt they had greater responsibility to their families than the founding fathers, a lieutenant from which regiment received letters from his wife complaining about raising three children without him?
(a) 16th Arkansas.
(b) 23rd New Jersey.
(c) 4th Illinois.
(d) 41st Ohio.

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) Georgia.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Illinois.

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

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) Kentucky.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Pennsylvania.

5. When discussing the movie "Gettysburg" and the novel "The Killer Angels," McPherson mentions which man who won the medal of honor for defending Little Big Top?
(a) Henry J. Minnigh.
(b) William E. Miller.
(c) Charles Evans Roberts.
(d) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. While talking about good-luck charms, McPherson notes there were few _____________ in the Civil War.

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

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