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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Wednesday, July 1, 1863, The First Day, Chapter 2, Buford.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chamberlain say this war is different from other wars?
(a) People are fighting for money.
(b) People are fighting for land.
(c) People are fighting for other's freedom.
(d) People are fighting for women.

2. Who has still not yet reported to Lee?
(a) Stuart
(b) Longstreet
(c) Pickett
(d) Kemper

3. Why does Lee think there is an opportunity here?
(a) Meade will be cautious and slow to move.
(b) Lee has just been given several thousand more troops.
(c) The Union Army was just defeated at Vicksburg.
(d) The Confederate Army is much stronger than the Union Army.

4. Why is Reynolds no longer in command?
(a) He has been severely injured and is taken to the hospital tent.
(b) Gen. Meade has arrived and removed him from command.
(c) His horse gets startled by the cannonfire and runs off with him.
(d) He has been killed.

5. Whose troops wear black hats and are known as the Iron Brigade?
(a) Robert E. Lee's
(b) James Longstreet's
(c) John Reynolds'
(d) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's

Short Answer Questions

1. Chamberlain think the war is about slavery and __________________.

2. What part of his body troubles Lee?

3. What happens just before dawn when the battle is about to begin?

4. What compliment does Reynolds pay Buford?

5. Which of these is the prevailing opinion held by others about General Meade?

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