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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As "Chapter 7: On the Altar of My Country" begins, McPherson quotes an analysis of surviving Tennessee soldiers that showed they weren't really aware of the South's goals during the Civil War. Which decade was the analysis?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1870s.

2. In the discussion of combat stress reaction, readers learn that this phenomenon was most common during which year of the Civil War?
(a) 3rd.
(b) 1st.
(c) 4th.
(d) 2nd.

3. 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?
(a) Callie.
(b) Mollie.
(c) Mary.
(d) Cellie.

4. Which most notorious massacre of black prisoners happened on April 12, 1864?
(a) Poison Springs.
(b) Port Royal.
(c) Fort Pillow.
(d) Plymouth.

5. In the discussion of the Confederate ideal of white supremacy and the right to slavery, from which state was the soldier who wrote he was "fighting for our liberty against tyrants of the North...who are determined to destroy slavery"?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Georgia.

6. In the discussion of the psychological and physiological issues soldiers faced in 1864, a private in the 100th Pennsylvania wrote that he slept one night out of how many?
(a) 25.
(b) 14.
(c) 19.
(d) 8.

7. During Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign in 1862, some of his men fought five battles in addition to marching how many miles in a single month?
(a) 350.
(b) 260.
(c) 140.
(d) 85.

8. 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) 243.
(b) 158.
(c) 25.
(d) 367.

9. In the discussion of the hardships for soldiers' wives, what percentage of officers does McPherson say were married in his sample?
(a) 72%.
(b) 28%.
(c) 51%.
(d) 14%.

10. In the discussion of Southern bitterness toward the North, from which state was the corporal who wrote it would be best "if the whole Yankee race could be swept from the face of the earth"?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Virginia.

11. During the discussion of the hardships for soldiers' wives, how many married men does McPherson say voluntarily enlisted to fight the war?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 800,000.
(d) 100,000.

12. In the discussion of Bell Wiley's study of Billy Yank, how many Union soldiers were interested in emancipation out of every ten surveyed?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

13. 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) $300.
(b) $900.
(c) $150.
(d) $50.

14. When McPherson says that Confederates sought to preserve their honor by killing black soldiers who tried to surrender, which place is NOT a documented occurrence of massacres?
(a) Port Royal.
(b) Poison Springs.
(c) Plymouth.
(d) Fort Pillow.

15. After the Seven Days battles, a private in the 58th Virginia wrote that through August and September his regiment had waded the Potomac how many times?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. By 1864, when a captain in the 5th Alabama wrote of the burning of Chambersburg, how much money did he say soldiers demanded from their victims' houses?

3. According to "Chapter 9: Slavery Must be Cleaned Out," what fraction of Union soldiers came from Democratic backgrounds?

4. From which state was the lieutenant who wrote in March 1862 that he would never "be instrumental in returning a slave to his master in any way shape or manner, I'll die first"?

5. From which state was the major whose letter home during the summer of 1862 contained the line "slavery must be cleaned out," from which the title of the chapter was inspired?

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