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

2. A private in the 1st Virginia reported, after the battle of Sharpsburg, that a man in the 24th Virginia was whipped publicly for cowardice; how many lashes did the man receive?
(a) 28.
(b) 42.
(c) 16.
(d) 39.

3. 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) Virginia.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Massachusetts.

4. From which state was the soldier who wrote religious poetry while lying in the trenches, during the battle of Vicksburg?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Pennsylvania.

5. "Chapter 5: Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers" opens by saying that like _________, bullets fall on the just and unjust alike.
(a) Rain.
(b) Snow.
(c) Death.
(d) Age.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. While talking about historically and politically famous individuals who fought the Civil War, McPherson mentions which of the following Ohio Republican leaders?

4. After a soldier was killed at the battle of Dranesville in 1861, his younger brother wrote home to say that everyone's time must come; at what battle was the writer later killed?

5. When McPherson talks about the ways in which the eagerness for battle was not unique to Civil War soldiers, he mentions the same phenomenon during which war?

(see the answer key)

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