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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the discussion of the psychological and physiological issues soldiers faced in 1864, modern studies have shown that a unit is exhausted if it twice suffers what fraction of casualties?
(a) 2/5.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 3/5.

2. During the discussion of the issues that arose from the Emancipation Proclamation, McPherson says that it sparked a moral crisis in the Union armies during the winter of what year(s)?
(a) 1962-63.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1961-62.
(d) 1964.

3. When a young private predicted the bullet had not been made that would shoot him, McPherson notes he was correct because the private died in what prison?
(a) Camp Ford.
(b) Point Lookout.
(c) Elmira.
(d) Andersonville.

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) Virginia.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Wisconsin.

5. Between May 5 and June 22, 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia experienced casualties amounting to what percent of their original strength?
(a) 60%.
(b) 38%.
(c) 49%.
(d) 95%.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the discussion of "short-timers" psychology, McPherson notes what percentage of 3-year enlisted Union soldiers from 1861 reenlisted?

2. In the discussion of a Louisiana cavalry sergeant who'd been the headmaster of a boys' school prior to enlisting, by what battle does the soldier cite Yankee hatred as his reason to fight?

3. From which state was the private who wrote in January 1862, after speaking to a slave whose husband had been beaten, that he was convinced of the "cruelty and inhumanity of the system"?

4. From which state was the soldier who wrote religious poetry while lying in the trenches, during the battle of Vicksburg?

5. At the end of "Chapter 8: The Cause of Liberty," by what year had Northern soldiers broadened their concept of liberty to include black people?

(see the answer key)

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