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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. When discussing the movie "Gettysburg" and the novel "The Killer Angels," McPherson mentions which man who won the medal of honor for defending Little Big Top?
(a) Charles Evans Roberts.
(b) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
(c) Henry J. Minnigh.
(d) William E. Miller.

2. The November 8, 1865, diary entry of a sergeant in the 8th Ohio cavalry noted that how many members of his regiment had voted for Lincoln, as opposed to sixteen votes for McClellan?
(a) 25.
(b) 367.
(c) 158.
(d) 243.

3. McPherson says that one of the reasons for this famous Confederate general's invasion of Tennessee during November 1864 was a hope to revitalize the troops from that state. What was this general's name?
(a) General James Longstreet.
(b) General Braxton Bragg.
(c) General John B. Hood.
(d) General Jubal Early.

4. As "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined" opens, which of the following is NOT a traditional means of motivating soldiers to fight?
(a) Money.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Training.
(d) Discipline.

5. 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"?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Seven Days battles, the 83rd Pennsylvania suffered what percentage of casualties?

2. After the story from the soldier who experienced the glaze of war during the battle at Gaines Mill, McPherson notes that another term for this phenomenon is what?

3. Which most notorious massacre of black prisoners happened on April 12, 1864?

4. A forty year old captain of the 18th Massachusetts wrote his wife in August 1862 that he'd rather fight for years than for his sons to continue it. In what battle was he killed four months later?

5. After the discussion of "short-timers" psychology, the author notes the pride and honor of a soldier were bound up with the pride and honor of all BUT WHICH of these?

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