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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee tell Taylor to do with the blind horse?
(a) Release it.
(b) Shoot it.
(c) Return it to its rightful owner.
(d) Add it to the cavalry's horses.

2. What is the topic of the passionate discussion between Kemper, Fremantle and the others?
(a) The duty of the British government.
(b) The rights of blacks.
(c) The cause of the war.
(d) America's inferiority to Britain.

3. How long does Buford hope to hold the Rebel soldiers at bay?
(a) Long enough for Lee to arrive in town.
(b) All day.
(c) More than six hours.
(d) Long enough for the infantry to arrive to support his cavalry.

4. Why is Reynolds no longer in command?
(a) His horse gets startled by the cannonfire and runs off with him.
(b) He has been killed.
(c) Gen. Meade has arrived and removed him from command.
(d) He has been severely injured and is taken to the hospital tent.

5. How does Chamberlain say this war is different from other wars?
(a) People are fighting for women.
(b) People are fighting for other's freedom.
(c) People are fighting for money.
(d) People are fighting for land.

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

7. What profession had the spy had before that helps him in his current position?
(a) Jockey
(b) Actor
(c) Soldier
(d) Traveling salesman

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 and Lawrence helping their father on the farm.
(c) Tom getting lost in the winter and finding his way back on his own.
(d) Tom always at Lawrence's heels, trying to be just like him.

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

10. Why does Lee think there is an opportunity here?
(a) The Union Army was just defeated at Vicksburg.
(b) Lee has just been given several thousand more troops.
(c) The Confederate Army is much stronger than the Union Army.
(d) Meade will be cautious and slow to move.

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

12. After Chamberlain talks to them, how many of the mutineers still refuse to fight?
(a) 6
(b) 10
(c) 114
(d) 120

13. 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.

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

15. How do Lee and Longstreet differ on battle strategy?
(a) Lee wants to lead with the cavalry. Longstreet wants to lead with the infantry.
(b) Lee wants to take the offensive. Longstreet wants to take the defensive.
(c) Lee wants to lead with the infantry. Longstreet wants to lead with the cavalry.
(d) Lee wants to take the defensive. Longstreet wants to take the offensive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Lee believe there are Union cavalry in Gettysburg?

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

4. What response do Ewell and Early have to Longstreet's idea of moving the troops in between Meade and Washington?

5. What is causing the Old Soldier's illness?

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