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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Longstreet tell Hood not to attack to the right?
(a) He thinks an attack on the right will fail.
(b) He wants Hood to stay where he is as a buffer between Longstreet and the enemy.
(c) He does not want to go against Lee again.
(d) He knows the enemy is reforming for just such an attack.

2. In Chamberlain's mind, what takes away from the perfection of the fight?
(a) Getting wounded in the foot.
(b) Using Tom to plug the hole in the line.
(c) The heavy casualties his regiment suffered.
(d) Kilrain's wound taking him off the field.

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

4. What does Armistead want Pickett to do about Garnett?
(a) Give him his own horse to ride.
(b) Order him not to make the charge.
(c) Force him to go to the hospital tent.
(d) Detail an aide to him to help him walk.

5. Why does Fremantle say the English have not entered the war?
(a) They will not fight to support slavery.
(b) They don't have the resources.
(c) They are engaged in their own war with France.
(d) They believe the North will win in the end.

6. Now that nearly half of his regiment is gone, what does Rice tell Chamberlain to do?
(a) Occupy the big, wooded hill.
(b) Join his men to Sickles' regiment.
(c) Move his remaining men out of harm's way for the time being.
(d) Take care of the wounded.

7. What surprises Chamberlain about his interaction with the escaped slave?
(a) His own feelings of revulsion
(b) The instant feeling of brotherhood
(c) The similarity between them
(d) The slave's articulateness

8. What had Sickles done that causes difficulty for the Union?
(a) Moves his troops down off the hill.
(b) Swings his men around the Confederate troops to the south.
(c) Engages in battle without permission.
(d) Removes his troops from battle.

9. What news does Tom bring Chamberlain?
(a) The hospital has been shut down.
(b) Kilrain has died.
(c) The rations can't get through.
(d) Meade wants to see him.

10. What prediction does Hancock make about the Rebels?
(a) They will concentrate on the left.
(b) They will strike again, this time in the middle.
(c) They will attack the right flank again.
(d) They will retreat before noon.

11. On whose eagerness for battle is Lee depending?
(a) Stuart and Pickett
(b) McLaws and Hood
(c) Longstreet and Rodes
(d) Ewell and Early

12. Whose absence is once again affecting the Confederate troops?
(a) Law
(b) Stuart
(c) Campbell
(d) Meade

13. How does the battle go for the Confederates?
(a) After a short time, they turn and run as a group.
(b) Against the odds, they begin to win.
(c) They sustain heavy casualties, yet they carry on.
(d) They are instantly stopped in their tracks.

14. Which of these countries is NOT represented at breakfast?
(a) Prussia
(b) Austria
(c) France
(d) England

15. What does Fremantle hope for after the war is over?
(a) The South will rejoin England.
(b) The destruction of the Northern government.
(c) An English victory over France.
(d) A position in the Confederate government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is NOT a reason Longstreet gives for why Meade will not attack?

2. Who do Hood's officers blame for their loss?

3. What keeps Armistead going?

4. What does Chamberlain think about the ground they're holding?

5. Why does Sykes want to see Chamberlain?

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