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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Trimble bring to Lee?
(a) Lee's order to take the hill arrived too late.
(b) Ewell could have easily taken the hill but hesitated too long.
(c) Ewell was eager to take the hill but Early would not allow it.
(d) There was no possible way for Ewell to take the hill.

2. Which of these is NOT a reason Longstreet gives for advising against a frontal assault?
(a) The enemy is well entrenched.
(b) His men will refuse.
(c) An attack would be uphill over open ground.
(d) The enemy has plenty of artillery.

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

4. What strategy does Lee decide is the best course of action?
(a) Attack on the right as Longstreet suggested.
(b) Attack at the center and split the line in two.
(c) Withdraw to higher ground and try to draw the enemy out in the open.
(d) Attack on the left where the enemy has already been weakened.

5. Who is described, upon his arrival, as looking "like a French king, all curls and feathers?"
(a) Arthur Fremantle
(b) Lewis Armistead
(c) Richard Garnett
(d) George Pickett

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Reynolds no longer in command?

2. How does Chamberlain get the mutineers' attention?

3. How does Armistead get his men's attention when he goes to help Kemper?

4. Which of these countries is NOT represented at breakfast?

5. What does the Baptist minister say to Chamberlain about slavery?

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