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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which bill, passed in 1863, removes the cracks between military and civilian justice?
(a) Bates Bill.
(b) Militia Act.
(c) Whiting Bill.
(d) The Habeas Corpus Act.

2. According to the laws of war, what happens to neutral crewmen when a neutral ship is confiscated?
(a) They are allowed to pass with a military escort.
(b) They are deported on the next available ship.
(c) They may serve as legal witnesses, but are not POWs.
(d) They are arrested and considered prisioners of war.

3. Why is Chauncey Burr arrested in Chapter 3?
(a) For bringing illegal goods across picket lines.
(b) For warning recruits they will go to hell.
(c) For breaking up a recruitment rally.
(d) For advising people to demand a peaceful settlement at the polls.

4. How does Ulysses S. Grant respond to General Paine's decision to arrest 100 citizens?
(a) He applauds Paine's actions.
(b) He orders the immediate release of all non-military personnel.
(c) He insists the citizens be given due process.
(d) He sends a report of Paine's actions to President Lincoln.

5. Which two bills does Congress pass on March 3, 1863?
(a) The Habeas Corpus Act and the Enrollment Act.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation and General Order 100.
(c) The Enrollment Act and the Militia Act.
(d) The Writ Act and the Militia Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who intervenes on Abraham Friedenreich's behalf?

2. What is the result of Brigadier General Thomas Ewing's General Order No. 11?

3. Whom does the Secretary of the Navy blame for the hoax published in the New York "World" and the "Journal of Commerce"?

4. What does Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles confide in his diary?

5. Which book of John A. Marshall's is well read among Lincoln's critics?

(see the answer key)

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