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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the discussion of the Confederate response to the Emancipation Proclamation, what percentage of the sample 429 Confederate letters voiced pro-slavery arguments?
(a) 95%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 40%.

2. From which state was the sergeant, three times wounded, stationed near Vicksburg who described debates in his brigade during the winter of 1863-1964?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Texas.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Illinois.

3. 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?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1865.

4. When discussing the hardships of soldiers' wives, McPherson says that failure to fight for one's country would be seen to dishonor all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Ancestors.
(b) Posterity.
(c) Wife.
(d) Children.

5. During the discussion of what sustained soldiers during the Civil War, which of the following played a large part in maintaining morale?
(a) Mail.
(b) Religion.
(c) Parties.
(d) Battles.

6. 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) 49%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 38%.

7. During the discussion of the desire to punish treason and "clean out" the rebels, a soldier from which state wrote his sister "I want to fight the rest of my life if necessary"?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Texas.
(d) Wisconsin.

8. 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"?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Wisconsin.

9. 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) $50.
(b) $900.
(c) $300.
(d) $150.

10. 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) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

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

12. After the three month Peninsula campaign, a Pennsylvania private wrote that he had lived on how many crackers from Thursday through Monday?
(a) 17.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 25.

13. 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?
(a) $200.
(b) $500.
(c) $800.
(d) $75.

14. When discussing the assertions of patriotism as a motivation for fighting, what percentage of the 429 Confederate letters and diaries used as sources affirmed this motivation?
(a) 66%.
(b) 27%.
(c) 43%.
(d) 84%.

15. 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 John B. Hood.
(b) General Braxton Bragg.
(c) General James Longstreet.
(d) General Jubal Early.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which individual was one of the highest-ranking Jewish officials during the war, who denounced the Emancipation Proclamation to his wife in January 1863?

2. When talking about how some soldiers' wives felt they had greater responsibility to their families than the founding fathers, a lieutenant from which regiment received letters from his wife complaining about raising three children without him?

3. As "Chapter 10: We Know That We are Supported at Home" opens, which of the following is NOT one of the main sources of combat motivation?

4. 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"?

5. While talking about the Emancipation Proclamation's effect on Union morale, McPherson says that, in comparison to enlisted men, what percentage of officers supported emancipation?

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