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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Old Capitol prison?
(a) A prison for spies and murderers.
(b) A prison for Union deserters.
(c) A prison for captured Confederates and civilian political prisoners.
(d) A place where military tortures were carried out.

2. Which General orders all blockade runners released in 1864?
(a) John A. Dix.
(b) Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) William T. Sherman.
(d) Edward Bates.

3. What war time legal practice is revived due to the rise of guerilla warfare in America?
(a) Execution squads.
(b) Hangings.
(c) Military commissions.
(d) Seizure of property.

4. How do the Confederates plan on reacting to Grant's order in Chapter 4?
(a) Burn all the farms and villages north of the border.
(b) Arrest Union citizens to use in hostage exchanges.
(c) Hide in the woods and snipe Union soldiers as they pass.
(d) Conscript Union citizens as Confederate soldiers.

5. Why does William Seward feel it necessary to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
(a) To undermine any potential assassination plots.
(b) In order to allow the arrest of Confederate spies.
(c) To silence political dissenters.
(d) To preserve the organization and morale of national forces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation concern Lincoln more than the reactions to the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus?

2. Who is Edmund J. Ellis?

3. What concerns does Joseph Holt have about rebel defectors who are found behind Union lines?

4. Who is Samuel E. Perkins?

5. Whom does General Grant expel from Tennessee for violating Treasury regulations?

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