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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee want Longstreet to do in battle?
(a) Be at the front of the charge.
(b) Lead his men from the cupola.
(c) Stay out of harm's way.
(d) Be responsible for keeping Lee updated on the battle's progression.

2. What response do Ewell and Early have to Longstreet's idea of moving the troops in between Meade and Washington?
(a) They think it should be followed immediately.
(b) They think it bears consideration.
(c) They think it would hurt morale.
(d) They think it is the mark of Longstreet's cowardice.

3. From what is the book's title derived?
(a) A speech Chamberlain made at school.
(b) A sermon from a visiting preacher.
(c) A letter Chamberlain receives from his father.
(d) A line of Edgar Allan Poe's.

4. What is Reynolds bringing with him?
(a) One brigade
(b) A division of infantry
(c) No one. He could not spare the troops
(d) The First and Eleventh Corps

5. What does Joseph Bucklin bring to Chamberlain?
(a) Orders from Gen. Meade.
(b) A letter from his wife.
(c) More ammunition.
(d) The mutineers' grievances.

6. What rumor circulates among the men to help boost morale?
(a) General McClellan has assumed command of the army.
(b) Extra troops are coming and will be relieving the Maine men in the morning.
(c) Lee has been killed in battle.
(d) The Rebels have been routed from Gettysburg.

7. What does Lee hear as he and Longstreet begin to ride?
(a) The Rebel yell
(b) Artillery
(c) Thunder
(d) Galloping horses

8. What is the internal conflict with which Lee struggles?
(a) He does not believe he is the right man to lead this army.
(b) He needs food for his men, but does not like to take it from civilians.
(c) He is certain that battle will mean death for many of his soldiers.
(d) He is attacking land he had once sworn to defend.

9. How do things change when Chamberlain and his men enter Pennsylvania?
(a) The civilians become more hostile.
(b) The weather gets worse.
(c) The civilians become much more friendly.
(d) The weather improves.

10. What happens just before dawn when the battle is about to begin?
(a) A misty rain begins to fall.
(b) The moon sets in a reddish haze.
(c) There is a shower of shooting stars.
(d) Lightning strikes a tree on a hill.

11. Once the Union soldiers start retreating, what is Lee's goal?
(a) To fall back to a stronghold outside of Gettysburg.
(b) To force the Union out of Gettysburg entirely.
(c) To keep pushing to capture the hill.
(d) To go after the Union commanders to create fear in the infantry.

12. Which of these is NOT a description of Stonewall Jackson as given by Longstreet to Fremantle?
(a) He went around with his finger in the air.
(b) He did not eat pepper.
(c) He was compassionate toward his enemies.
(d) He loved to chew lemons.

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

14. What order does Lee give to Ewell?
(a) Take the hill if at all possible.
(b) Have the cavalry fight dismounted.
(c) Pull back and preserve your troops.
(d) Attack the Union's flank.

15. Why is Fremantle, the Englishman, in Longstreet's camp?
(a) He has been hired as a spy.
(b) He is hoping to sell new guns to the Confederate army.
(c) He is observing for the Queen.
(d) He is planning to write a book about American customs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been given command of the Union Army?

2. What does Longstreet want Lee to do when Stuart finally returns?

3. Who has still not yet reported to Lee?

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

5. What is the difficulty Lee's army has with being in Pennsylvania?

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