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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Hamilton Easter?
(a) A wealthy businessman arrested for blockade running.
(b) A slave who sues for his freedom.
(c) A grocer arrested for bringing illegal goods across picket lines.
(d) A Confederate spy.

2. In Chapter 7, which great blockade running port is the last to fall?
(a) Savannah, GA.
(b) North Port, FL.
(c) Charleston, SC.
(d) Wilmington, NC.

3. Why is John Merryman arrested in Chapter 1?
(a) For shooting his slaves.
(b) For raising forces for the Confederacy.
(c) For selling alcohol to Union troops.
(d) For bringing illegal goods across picket lines.

4. What does General Order No. 104 request that civilian and military authorities do?
(a) Turn in all information about spies and suspicious personnel.
(b) Place all thieves and blockade runners under arrest.
(c) Interfere as little as possible with commerce while capturing draft dodgers.
(d) Report all strangers and suspected derelicts to the Union Army.

5. What does the War Department and General E. R. S. Camby declare the Banshee?
(a) A foreign agent.
(b) An agent of the Confederacy.
(c) Property of the Confederacy.
(d) Property of the Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which legitimate sailors are sometimes mistaken for blockade-runners?

2. In 1864, what bogus presidential proclamation is published in the New York "World" and the "Journal of Commerce"?

3. Which Union general has President Lincoln's blessing to arrest all the men he wishes and freeing those who are willing to take an oath of allegiance?

4. What type of state is Missouri described as being in Chapter 2?

5. What unusual qualities does Henry W. Halleck have in a leader?

(see the answer key)

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