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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thursday, July 2, 1863, The Second Day, Chapter 2, Chamberlain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the slave shot?
(a) He assaults an officer.
(b) He tries to help another slave escape.
(c) He asks directions from a white woman.
(d) He runs from the Confederate ranks.

2. What scent directs Buford to headquarters?
(a) Cooking meat
(b) Cigar smoke
(c) Burning wood
(d) Fresh-dug earth

3. What does Corse find out about the young woman Buford has seen in town?
(a) Her husband is a prisoner in a Southern camp.
(b) Her husband is an undertaker.
(c) She is a Southern sympathizer.
(d) She is a widow.

4. What is described as "that ripply sound that raised the hair, that high thin scream from far away... terrible, inhuman"?
(a) The scream of wounded men
(b) The scream of wounded horses
(c) The scream of incoming cannon fire
(d) The Rebel yell

5. What is the situation when Reynolds arrives?
(a) Buford's troops are soundly beating the Rebels.
(b) The Rebels have taken over Buford's headquarters.
(c) Buford's troops are holding, but barely.
(d) Buford has given up command to a junior officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Reynolds no longer in command?

2. According to Ames, what two things must an officer do to lead men?

3. Why does Gibbon not want Buford to go into headquarters?

4. What memory does Chamberlain have of his brother, Tom, in childhood?

5. What catches Buford's eye in the cemetery?

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