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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. By 1863, McPherson states, trouble and sorrow in the dis-United States was almost beyond calculation, as the war had claimed how many lives?
(a) 75,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 150,000.

2. After the battle of Fredericksburg, which famous writer visited his brother, a lieutenant in the 51st New York, after the man had been wounded?
(a) Henry James.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Upton Sinclair.

3. During the discussion of what sustained soldiers during the Civil War, which of the following played a large part in maintaining morale?
(a) Battles.
(b) Mail.
(c) Parties.
(d) Religion.

4. Officers appropriated comfortable houses while enlisted men froze in tents in Nashville during November 1864. From what state was the private who complained in his letters?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Virginia.

5. When talking about the frustrations of Union soldiers in the last two years of the war, what amount do readers learn drafted men could pay to acquire a substitute?
(a) $150.
(b) $300.
(c) $50.
(d) $900.

Short Answer Questions

1. When talking about the relationships between enlisted men and their officers, McPherson notes a major from which state who visited his sick and wounded soldiers every day?

2. 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?

3. When discussing Jesse Beecher's service record, McPherson states that he fought in all BUT WHICH of the following states?

4. Right before the battle of Gettysburg, a lieutenant in the 53rd Georgia wrote to his wife, that Pennsylvania was the greatest country he'd ever seen; what was his wife's name?

5. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that Union artilleryman John Billings wrote which of the following?

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