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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes it impossible for Luther's troop to stay in formation?
(a) Briars and underbrush.
(b) It's too dark to see.
(c) It's raining too hard to see.
(d) Confusion.

2. What is the word that is unfinished in the letter in Chapter 2?
(a) Friend.
(b) Home.
(c) Soon.
(d) Love.

3. Who rides by, impressing Luther as always with his bearing and appearance?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Johnston.
(c) Palmer.
(d) Grant.

4. Which general is Palmer's boss?
(a) Grant.
(b) Johnston.
(c) Walker.
(d) Sherman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luther think about the men he sees lying on the ground?

2. What was Grant's family business?

3. What is the name of the dog with Walter?

4. How do the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 test their guns?

5. Why doesn't Luther understand the attack plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the other Confederate commanders feel about Johnston's recommendation to pull out and why?

2. What does Sherman do with the information provided to him by Colonel Appler?

3. Explain the Confederate strategy that is based on Waterloo.

4. How does Walter learn the meaning of Shiloh? Discuss the meaning of the word.

5. How do Luther and fellow troop members treat the ones who are lying on the ground?

6. Describe Luther's first hand-to-hand combat.

7. What does Luther initially think about fellow troop members lying on the ground? What does he come to realize?

8. Describe General Johnston's death, as witnessed by Luther.

9. Why, according to Walter, do the soldiers in his troop want to fight at Shiloh?

10. What Union leader does Palmer know and how does he know him?

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