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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After what battle do arrests of Southern citizens begin to decline?
(a) Gettysburg.
(b) Chickamauga.
(c) Vicksburg.
(d) Antietam.

2. What happens to Assistant Judge William M. Merrick in Chapter 1?
(a) He is arrested and jailed for the duration of the war.
(b) He is put under surveillance and loses his salary.
(c) He is shot while giving a public speech.
(d) He is executed for treason.

3. According to "The American Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865," how many citizens are denied habeas corpus?
(a) 38,000.
(b) 13,535.
(c) 942.
(d) 20,000.

4. Which judge challenges President Lincoln's right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
(a) Assistant Judge William M. Merrick.
(b) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.
(c) Provost Marshal General Bernard G. Farrar .
(d) Attorney General Edward Bates.

5. 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) Hide in the woods and snipe Union soldiers as they pass.
(c) Arrest Union citizens to use in hostage exchanges.
(d) Conscript Union citizens as Confederate soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Confederate deserters often treated by Union troops in Chapter 4?

2. What does General John C. Frymont do in Chapter 2?

3. According to Lincoln, whom does the constitution give the power to declare war?

4. Why are modern historians unable to replicate or confirm Colonel F. C. Ainsworth's study?

5. Which book does Andrew D. Duff write warnings of the dangerous precedents being set by President Lincoln's actions?

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