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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. While talking about the Emancipation Proclamation's effect on Union morale, McPherson says that, in comparison to enlisted men, what percentage of officers supported emancipation?
(a) 78%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 89%.
(d) 44%.

2. In "Chapter 6: A Band of Brothers," McPherson states that in the Confederacy, which state endured a great deal of disdain from other states?
(a) Virginia.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Texas.
(d) Arkansas.

3. 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) Stones River.
(d) Fort Donelson.

4. From which state was the major whose letter home during the summer of 1862 contained the line "slavery must be cleaned out," from which the title of the chapter was inspired?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Ohio.

5. 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) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 27.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the discussion of leadership, which of the following Generals had a very different reputation at Gettysburg than he had earlier at Malvern Hill?

2. When a captain from the 1st Connecticut Cavalry wrote about soldiers who shirk their duty, he said that in the company of sixty men only how many were in line?

3. In the discussion of the battle energy, an anemic Yale graduate--who later died at 26--recounted that the double-quick was not a fast enough pace; what disease did the man have?

4. "Chapter 5: Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers" opens by saying that like _________, bullets fall on the just and unjust alike.

5. During the battle of Fair Oaks, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., swore he would shoot the first man who ran, in which of the following regiments?

(see the answer key)

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