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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Heth?
(a) He has been killed.
(b) He has been wounded in the head.
(c) He has been captured by the enemy.
(d) His troops have been captured.

2. What sight appears to Longstreet to look like masses of fat white spiders?
(a) The tattered remnants of several brigades' flags
(b) Chewed bits of paper littering the road
(c) The tents gathered on the low ground in front of him
(d) Piles of severed limbs in the darkness

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

4. What continues to frustrate Lee as the battle progresses?
(a) He is still fighting "blind" without adequate information.
(b) His health is slowing him down and taking away his concentration.
(c) The Union soldiers are inexplicably beating his men.
(d) His officers continue to refuse to follow orders.

5. Why does Buford pause when writing for help?
(a) He has an argument with his superior and does not want to apologize.
(b) He does not want his superiors to think he cannot handle the battle.
(c) He has written for help before and it has never come.
(d) He has to think up a code in case the enemy got hold of the message.

6. What does Longstreet think could lose the war?
(a) Loyalty
(b) Cowardice
(c) Honor
(d) Dishonesty

7. What is Buford's main concern?
(a) He himself will be killed in the gunfire.
(b) The ground they are defending is in a poor position.
(c) His men will run out of ammunition and have to fight with bayonets.
(d) His men will not be able to hold out long enough for help to arrive.

8. What is different about the way Buford has his cavalry soldiers fight?
(a) They fight on foot, not on horseback.
(b) They form a circle and surround the enemy.
(c) They use bows and arrows.
(d) They fight in civilian clothes, not in uniform.

9. Who is Armistead's friend in the Union army?
(a) Buford
(b) Chamberlain
(c) Reynolds
(d) Hancock

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

11. Why doesn't Lee believe there are Union cavalry in Gettysburg?
(a) Cavalry travels behind infantry, not in front of it.
(b) Gettysburg is known to be sympathetic with the Southern cause.
(c) The Union army has lost so many of its horses, it can no longer support a cavalry.
(d) He believes Stuart would have told him if the cavalry were arriving there.

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

13. What does Longstreet want Lee to do when Stuart finally returns?
(a) Reproach him.
(b) Demote him to private.
(c) Take him out of the cavalry and put him in the infantry.
(d) Court-martial him.

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

15. Which of these is NOT a way Lee thinks of Reynolds?
(a) A dandy
(b) A friend
(c) A gentleman
(d) A neat trim man

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives at headquarters?

2. What has Heth done that he was not supposed to have done?

3. What is causing Lee frustration at the start of the battle?

4. After Chamberlain talks to them, how many of the mutineers still refuse to fight?

5. How long does Buford hope to hold the Rebel soldiers at bay?

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