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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) State.
(b) Nation.
(c) Family.
(d) Regiment.

2. In July 1861, what battle caused Northern volunteers to flock to the army?
(a) Bull Run.
(b) Chancellorville.
(c) Shiloh.
(d) Gettysburg.

3. When comparing the American Patriots of 1776 to the "Southern Patriots" of 1861, McPherson notes that a famous quote by which of the following was a favorite Southern cry?
(a) Patrick Henry.
(b) James Madison.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

4. As McPherson begins to describe the training regimen kept by soldiers, he quotes a young man from Indiana who wrote what relative, complaining a soldier "is not his own man"?
(a) Mother.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Aunt.
(d) Sister.

5. McPherson notes that at the battle of ___________________ on June 3, 1864, one New York regiment was driven by the Provost Guard at bayonet point.
(a) Petersburg.
(b) Peach Tree Creek.
(c) Wilderness.
(d) Cold Harbor.

6. 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) 32.
(b) 48.
(c) 11.
(d) 53.

7. As McPherson discusses the officer in the 4th Alabama, who was determined to fight a "black republican" leader, he reveals that leader is what relation to him?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Brother-in-law.
(d) Grandson.

8. Soldiers in the discussion of military coercion stood firm under fire for the Prussian army under the command of ________ because they feared their officers more than the enemy.
(a) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(b) Frederick William I.
(c) Frederick the Great.
(d) Gerhard von Scharnhorst.

9. As McPherson describes how soldiers on both sides were spoiling for a fight, he mentions an expression denoting exciting experiences: see the _________?
(a) Bear.
(b) Canary.
(c) Donkey.
(d) Elephant.

10. In the discussion of Southern propaganda, a planter wrote his wife of the defense of innocent women from the "lecherous Northern hirelings." From which state was this soldier?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Virginia.

11. During the discussion of "short-timers" psychology in the Union army, what was the name of the rule that prevented this phenomenon in the Confederate army?
(a) Richmond Congress.
(b) Southern Congress.
(c) Congress of Confederates.
(d) Richmond Confederacy.

12. 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) 300,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 150,000.

13. When McPherson says that grousing about war has long been a soldier's privilege, he notes an officer from which state who wrote that these "soldiers will fight like bull dogs"?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Massachusetts.

14. During the discussion of leadership, which of the following Generals had a very different reputation at Gettysburg than he had earlier at Malvern Hill?
(a) General James Thomas.
(b) General Willis Gorman.
(c) General Lewis Armistead.
(d) General Mercer Tomlinson.

15. 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) Walt Whitman.
(b) Henry James.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Upton Sinclair.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When discussing soldiers not eager to fight, McPherson says derogatory comments about these men came from officers who had enlisted for all BUT WHICH of these reasons?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. After the battle of Fredericksburg, the 10th New York had fought six battles in as many months and had lost all but how many men?

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