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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Chapter 5: Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers," a man from which state wrote he didn't feel he had any right to ask God for exemption from harm?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Ohio.

2. According to the quote from John W. DeForest in "Chapter 1: This War is a Crusade," the man who does not dread to die or be mutilated is a what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Young.
(c) Lunatic.
(d) Hero.

3. In the discussion of hyped-up battle behavior, McPherson notes that the phenomenon has been described as all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Military craze.
(b) Combat frenzy.
(c) Battle rage.
(d) Fighting madness.

4. During the discussion of primary group cohesion, McPherson says it has existed since time immemorial but was studied during World War II in all BUT WHICH of these soldiers?
(a) German.
(b) American.
(c) British.
(d) Japanese.

5. McPherson tells of a sergeant in the 20th Indiana during the Mine Run campaign who'd left _____________ to enlist.
(a) Farming.
(b) Politics.
(c) Medical school.
(d) Fiancee.

6. 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) Wisconsin.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Georgia.

7. 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?
(a) 48.
(b) 53.
(c) 32.
(d) 11.

8. When a Quaker captain in the 5th New Jersey was threatened to be turned out of his faith if he did not resign, he found he could not leave and was later killed in which battle?
(a) Second Manassas.
(b) Bull Run.
(c) Shiloh.
(d) Pleasant Hill.

9. As McPherson discusses the initial impulse that prompted men to enlist on both sides after the raid on Fort Sumter he references which of the following French terms?
(a) Combattre pret.
(b) Rage militaire.
(c) Vide en haut.
(d) Folie.

10. 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?
(a) Bright's disease.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Typhoid.

11. When discussing various war memoirs, McPherson mentions that James Gooding, a black soldier in the 54th Massachusetts, wrote which of the following?
(a) The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah.
(b) On The Altar of Freedom.
(c) Hard Marching Every Day.
(d) Hard Tack and Coffee.

12. When McPherson and his cousin visit the four Civil War battlefields near Fredericksburg, Virginia, he notes that it is the day after which of the following holidays?
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Easter.

13. In the story of James and John Welsh, McPherson says that John--who enlisted with the 27th Virginia--was killed during which of the following battles?
(a) Gettysburg.
(b) Chancellorville.
(c) Shiloh.
(d) Bull Run.

14. The end of "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined" says Civil War soldiers came from a society that prized all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Obedience.
(b) Individualism.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Self-reliance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the discussion of the "fighting drunk" terminology, Confederate soldiers were accused of an unlikely combination of whiskey and what?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Which of the following was a favorite word of Confederate recruits, during the discussion of their perceived fate, if the South were to be forced back into the Union?

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