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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who arrives at headquarters?
(a) Meade
(b) Longstreet
(c) McClellan
(d) Chamberlain
2. What is causing the Old Soldier's illness?
(a) Drinking unboiled water.
(b) Eating too many cherries.
(c) Eating spoiled meat.
(d) Sharing eating utensils.
3. To whom does Buford send a message regarding the Rebel troops?
(a) Gen. Meade
(b) James Longstreet
(c) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
(d) John Reynolds
4. What happens just before dawn when the battle is about to begin?
(a) The moon sets in a reddish haze.
(b) A misty rain begins to fall.
(c) There is a shower of shooting stars.
(d) Lightning strikes a tree on a hill.
5. What is the difficulty Lee's army has with being in Pennsylvania?
(a) They are now invaders of enemy territory.
(b) They have no maps of the state.
(c) They cannot get messages to Confederacy headquarters.
(d) They are too far from their supply line.
6. Why does Gibbon not want Buford to go into headquarters?
(a) There is a fist fight underway inside.
(b) There is a private discussion going on.
(c) It's too crowded already.
(d) Howard has a complaint against him.
7. What order does Lee give to Ewell?
(a) Take the hill if at all possible.
(b) Attack the Union's flank.
(c) Have the cavalry fight dismounted.
(d) Pull back and preserve your troops.
8. What memory does Chamberlain have of his brother, Tom, in childhood?
(a) Tom getting in fights at school over Lawrence's bookishness.
(b) Tom getting lost in the winter and finding his way back on his own.
(c) Tom and Lawrence helping their father on the farm.
(d) Tom always at Lawrence's heels, trying to be just like him.
9. What kind of relationship do Lee and Longstreet have?
(a) Longstreet is Lee's son-in-law.
(b) They used to be very close until they had a disagreement over strategy.
(c) Lee admires Longstreet but Longstreet thinks Lee is too old for the job.
(d) They are very close although Lee is very formal and Longstreet doesn't speak much.
10. What does Kilrain say Chamberlain should tell the mutineers?
(a) Fight or be called cowards.
(b) The truth
(c) Comforting lies
(d) Fight, or we'll shoot you.
11. What compliment does Reynolds pay Buford?
(a) He's the best-dressed soldier in the Union army.
(b) If he survives, he might make a soldier one day.
(c) He is not a great horseman, but he knows how to choose ground.
(d) He's the best calvary leader in the army.
12. 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) She is a widow.
(c) Her husband is an undertaker.
(d) She is a Southern sympathizer.
13. How does Chamberlain get the mutineers' attention?
(a) Speaking softly
(b) Waving a flag
(c) Blowing a bugle
(d) Firing a shot in the air
14. What is Reynolds bringing with him?
(a) The First and Eleventh Corps
(b) No one. He could not spare the troops
(c) One brigade
(d) A division of infantry
15. Why is Kilrain only a private?
(a) He had picked a fight with an officer.
(b) He had refused promotion several times.
(c) He had only joined the army a few weeks earlier.
(d) He had stolen a horse.
Short Answer Questions
1. Chamberlain think the war is about slavery and __________________.
2. Why doesn't Lee believe there are Union cavalry in Gettysburg?
3. Whose troops wear black hats and are known as the Iron Brigade?
4. Which of these does Lee think will NOT be an issue with Meade?
5. Where does Longstreet think Lee and his army should be instead of Chambersburg?
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