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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 50 through.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 34, the Union troops captured Port ____________. Grant was accompanied by his thirteen-year-old son.
(a) Oregon.
(b) Washington.
(c) Smith.
(d) Gibson.

2. In Chapter 16, Grant resigned from the military. He and Julia had two children by this time and Grant moved the family to land she owned near what city?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Springfield.
(d) St. Louis.

3. In Chapter 50, Grant said that soon after the fall of Atlanta, the Army of the ______________ began the campaign that would eventually result in the fall of the Confederate capital.
(a) Potomac.
(b) Cumberland.
(c) Americas.
(d) Union.

4. Lee moved his center of operations leaving an entire Union regiment without what?
(a) An enemy to face.
(b) A plan of attack.
(c) Food.
(d) Weapons.

5. Grant's time at West Point and in the military meant that he knew who?
(a) Many of the other long-term military men from both sides of the Civil War.
(b) Foreign military leaders.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Many Union military leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 27, Grant moved to _______________, where he set up headquarters.

2. One of Grant's commanders, General _______________, arrived at a house where Grant was seated on the verandah. The house belonged to Confederate loyalists and Grant was simply waiting there to watch the advance of his men.

3. In Chapter 20, Grant's troops came under fire for the first time at Belmont and he said they reacted how?

4. Grant said he worked hard, but in 1858, he became ill with what?

5. ______________ fell on Grant and left him painfully bruised and swollen.

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