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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is district attorney Ezra B. Chase arrested in Chapter 3?
(a) For advising people to demand a peaceful settlement at the polls.
(b) For selling alcohol to Union troops.
(c) For warning recruits they will go to hell.
(d) For breaking up a recruitment rally.

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

3. Why does President Lincoln pardon Wes Brogan?
(a) He wants to use Mr. Brogan as a Union spy.
(b) Because he does not want to damage the economy.
(c) He believes Mr. Brogan acted in self-defense.
(d) Because he does not believe in slavery.

4. How does the Confederate Captain John Wilkinson slip through the blockade in 1864?
(a) By pretending to be British.
(b) By hiding in inlets and traveling at night.
(c) By pretending to be from Boston.
(d) By pretending to be a Union officer.

5. Why is Edmund J. Ellis banished from Missouri?
(a) For burning a bridge into St. Louis.
(b) For exercising freedom of expression.
(c) For bringing illegal goods across picket lines.
(d) For selling alcohol to Union troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who intervenes on John Eitel's behalf?

2. With what crime is Skipper F. N. Bonneau charged?

3. Which bill, passed in 1863, removes the cracks between military and civilian justice?

4. Which politician quotes Lord Coke by saying, "Where courts of law are open, martial law cannot be executed"?

5. Which General orders all blockade runners released in 1864?

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