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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Luther and the other soldiers take from the Union tents as they rush past?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Money.
(c) Guns and knives.
(d) Biscuits and other food.

2. When he joins the family business, who keeps Grant away from customers?
(a) His brothers.
(b) His children.
(c) His wife.
(d) The customers themselves.

3. What two words does Luther use to describe the war?
(a) Obscene and gory.
(b) Ethical and moral.
(c) Unreligious and obscene.
(d) Necessary and moral.

4. What does Luther's troop find past the Union tents?
(a) A dog.
(b) Union soldiers lined up shoulder to shoulder.
(c) The river.
(d) The cook's wagon.

5. How does Luther come to understand the attack plan?
(a) Someone draws it on the ground for him.
(b) He uses a dictionary.
(c) Someone who speaks English relays the message to him.
(d) He studies the manual.

6. What is the argument of Confederate commanders who insist upon a battle in Chapter 1?
(a) That the women will be disappointed.
(b) That not fighting would be demoralizing.
(c) That the soldiers must earn their wages.
(d) That they must do it for the Confederacy.

7. How does Palmer's father lose an arm?
(a) In a cotton gin.
(b) Fighting in Texas.
(c) Gambling.
(d) At the lumber mill.

8. What is wrong with the men that Luther sees lying on the ground?
(a) They all have broken legs.
(b) They are wounded or dead.
(c) They all have broken ribs.
(d) They have a stitch in their sides.

9. What is Luther's home state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Florida.
(d) Missouri.

10. Why does Walter have guard duty at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) He was promoted to this job.
(b) For fun.
(c) As punishment.
(d) It's his normal job.

11. To which regiment does Walter Fountain belong?
(a) 35th New Orleans.
(b) 32nd Alabama.
(c) 53rd Ohio.
(d) 23rd Mississippi.

12. Whose mother dies in childbirth?
(a) Johnston's.
(b) Sherman's.
(c) Palmer's.
(d) Grant's.

13. What sales career did Grant unsuccessfully try while staying out of the family business?
(a) Funeral insurance sales.
(b) Advertising sales.
(c) Floral sales.
(d) Real estate sales.

14. Who is Luther's commander?
(a) Forrest.
(b) Plummer.
(c) Walker.
(d) Appler.

15. What was Grant's family business?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Farming.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Tanning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who rides by, impressing Luther as always with his bearing and appearance?

3. What weapon does Luther use in hand to hand combat?

4. What does Walter's commander make the aides and officers do?

5. What does "Shiloh" mean?

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