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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book of John A. Marshall's is well read among Lincoln's critics?
(a) Low Tide for Liberty.
(b) The Prisoner of State.
(c) The American Bastile.
(d) The Merryman.

2. What is the result of Brigadier General Thomas Ewing's General Order No. 11?
(a) 13,433 citizens of Missouri are arrested by Union forces.
(b) 237 civillians from Missouri are executed by Union soldiers.
(c) Military execution of civilian spies is abolished.
(d) 20,000 citizens are banished from the state of Missouri.

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

4. What order does Ulysses S. Grant give General Philip Sheridan in Chapter 4?
(a) Take only what is needed from the farms and villages.
(b) Burn all factories, but leave farms and gardens intact.
(c) Conscript all men under 30, regardless of race.
(d) Conscript all men under 50 and destroy their means of subsistence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Edmund J. Ellis banished from Missouri?

2. What orders does President Lincoln give General Benjamin F. Butler and General-in-Chief Winfield Scott in Chapter 1?

3. What is the verdict in Joseph Griffin's case?

4. How do the Confederates plan on reacting to Grant's order in Chapter 4?

5. What do William Seward and George McClelland approve in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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