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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Walter's impression of the Confederate territories as he travels through them?
(a) They are not worth fighting for.
(b) They can be improved with Union funds.
(c) He wants to move there when the war ends.
(d) They are lush, fertile territories.

2. What makes the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 begin to question whether their guns work?
(a) Their swords have fallen apart.
(b) Their own inability.
(c) The rain.
(d) Their lack of confidence.

3. Who is Otto's commander?
(a) Buterbaugh.
(b) Johnston.
(c) Sidney.
(d) Walter.

4. Where was Palmer when the Confederacy seceded from the Union?
(a) Making a bank deposit.
(b) At Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
(c) At the Louisiana State Military Academy.
(d) Sitting in a doctor's office.

5. What makes the march for the Confederate soldiers at the beginning of the novel so difficult?
(a) Cliffs.
(b) Rocks.
(c) The river.
(d) Mud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unnerving sound that Otto describes?

2. What Union noise does Johnston hear in Chapter 1?

3. What was Grant's family business?

4. What provokes Walter's commander to send him with a message to the general that an attack is imminent?

5. Why is Luther excused from a second day of charging?

(see the answer key)

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