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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, We Know That We are Supported at Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

2. When McPherson recounts the tale of James and John Welsh, he says that James moved to what state in 1853 and became a Republican?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Maine.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Virginia.

3. In the discussion of Lincoln's idea that the United States represented the last best hope for the survival of republican government, the world is bestrode by all BUT WHICH of these?
(a) Kings.
(b) Tyrants.
(c) Emperors.
(d) Despots.

4. While talking about religious fatalism, McPherson says that more soldiers were practical Arminians than strict __________________.
(a) Fatalists.
(b) Calvinists.
(c) Protestants.
(d) Predestinations.

5. In "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," soldiers on both sides were afraid the war would be over before they had a chance to do anything, a fear written by a recruit from which regiment?
(a) 18th Mississippi.
(b) 8th Georgia.
(c) 2nd Michigan.
(d) 23rd Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1863, when an infantry colonel said he began "to think no Soldier ought to be married," readers learn that he is from state?

2. During the discussion of good-luck charms and talismans, the author notes that he has not encountered any evidence of Civil War soldiers carrying what common item?

3. After discussing how the language of soldiers in letters home is cliche today, McPherson says that which writer noted that World War I made words like "glory" mock-heroic?

4. In the discussion of the physiological effects of warfare, a chemical reaction in the adrenal gland causes which of the following to be released?

5. As McPherson discusses the officer in the 4th Alabama, who was determined to fight a "black republican" leader, he reveals that leader is what relation to him?

(see the answer key)

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