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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Armistead get his men's attention when he goes to help Kemper?
(a) Shoots his gun into the air.
(b) Blows a bugle call.
(c) Waves a flag in the air.
(d) Puts his hat on top of his uplifted sword.

2. What is Longstreet struggling with throughout the chapter?
(a) The loss of Stonewall Jackson.
(b) Fighting a war that is about slavery.
(c) Losing faith in the abilities of his men.
(d) His disagreement with Lee and whether or not to just follow orders.

3. What does the Baptist minister say to Chamberlain about slavery?
(a) There is nothing wrong with it provided the master treats the slave well.
(b) Chamberlain cannot understand it because he has never lived with the black man.
(c) It is the mark of a doomed society.
(d) It is wrong according to the Bible and every man should fight it.

4. What does Marshall request of Longstreet?
(a) Ask Lee to court-martial Stuart.
(b) Talk Lee into a frontal attack.
(c) Speak to Lee on Stuart's behalf.
(d) Talk Lee into an attack on the right.

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

6. 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 are instantly stopped in their tracks.
(d) They sustain heavy casualties, yet they carry on.

7. Why does Longstreet say Lee should put Hill in command instead of Longstreet?
(a) Hill earned the right with his victory the day before.
(b) Hill is better at this kind of assault.
(c) The men are mostly Hill's.
(d) Longstreet has come down with the old soldier's disease.

8. What does Kilrain think is important in fighting this war?
(a) Equality
(b) Race
(c) Justice
(d) Unity

9. What is Stuart's initial response when Lee tells him there are officers who want Stuart court-martialed?
(a) He wants to know who those officers are.
(b) He protests his innocence.
(c) He bows his head in shame.
(d) He offers to resign from his post.

10. What happens to Kilrain in the battle?
(a) He gets shot in the leg.
(b) He falls from a horse.
(c) He is almost instantly killed.
(d) He gets shot in the armpit.

11. What strategy does Lee decide is the best course of action?
(a) Withdraw to higher ground and try to draw the enemy out in the open.
(b) Attack on the right as Longstreet suggested.
(c) Attack on the left where the enemy has already been weakened.
(d) Attack at the center and split the line in two.

12. Where is Chamberlain's regiment sent?
(a) To the center of the line
(b) Off the battlefield entirely, to rest
(c) Back to the left, where they had been
(d) To the right end of the line

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

14. What does Longstreet think will be the outcome of this battle?
(a) The surviving soldiers will draw more troops to them with their stories of courage.
(b) The North will have suffered too many casualties to finish the war.
(c) The South will come back to win more important battles.
(d) The South will eventually lose the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pitzer tell Chamberlain about Meade?

2. What does Chamberlain think will happen if the South wins?

3. What does Chamberlain decide to do when his men run out of ammunition?

4. What strange action does Chamberlain take under gunfire?

5. Where does Tom get the coffee that he brings to Chamberlain?

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