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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friday, July 3, 1863, Chapter 2, Longstreet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first question Chamberlain has for the mutineers?
(a) Where are you from?
(b) Why did you mutiny?
(c) When did you last eat?
(d) How many of you will fight?

2. What is "The Cause" for Longstreet?
(a) Victory
(b) States' rights
(c) Slavery
(d) Southern aristocracy

3. What decision does Longstreet make after hearing the spy's information?
(a) To contact J.E.B. Stuart to get the cavalry to Longstreet's headquarters.
(b) To move the troops to Gettysburg.
(c) To send another scout out to confirm.
(d) To go to Lee.

4. To whom does Buford send a message regarding the Rebel troops?
(a) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
(b) James Longstreet
(c) Gen. Meade
(d) John Reynolds

5. What kind of relationship do Lee and Longstreet have?
(a) Longstreet is Lee's son-in-law.
(b) They are very close although Lee is very formal and Longstreet doesn't speak much.
(c) They used to be very close until they had a disagreement over strategy.
(d) Lee admires Longstreet but Longstreet thinks Lee is too old for the job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Reynolds send to his commanders?

2. Why did the mutineers mutiny?

3. Whose troops wear black hats and are known as the Iron Brigade?

4. Who arrives at headquarters?

5. What is described as "that ripply sound that raised the hair, that high thin scream from far away... terrible, inhuman"?

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