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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Hamilton do for a living?
(a) Provides ammunition to the military.
(b) Farms.
(c) Rubs elbows with famous, rich people.
(d) Owns and runs a newspaper.

2. What tragedy has just befallen Jackson when the novel opens?
(a) His wife has died.
(b) He has just been fired.
(c) His newborn daughter has died.
(d) He has learned that he is very sick.

3. How is John Brown executed?
(a) By hanging.
(b) By rifle.
(c) By drowning.
(d) By lethal injection.

4. Where would Chamberlain have gone had he become a soldier instead of an academic?
(a) West Point.
(b) Virginia Tech.
(c) He wouldn't have gone to college at all.
(d) MIT.

5. What is Hancock in charge of when he is first introduced in the novel?
(a) Protecting government personnel.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) A supply post filled with weapons and supplies.
(d) Top-secret military plans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of Lee's freed slaves request?

2. What does Houston tell Lee when they first meet?

3. What does Jackson do with his wife before he rides off to war with the Corps of Cadets?

4. When does "Gods and Generals" begin?

5. Where does Jackson teach when he is first introduced in "Gods and Generals"?

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