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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Lincoln feel the need to censure John Fremont?
(a) Fremont is a Confederate supporter.
(b) Lincoln believes Fremont is part of an assassination plot.
(c) Fremont's actions are political and outside his realm of power.
(d) Fremont is a Confederate spy.

3. In Chapter 6, which Pro-Lincoln historian is accused of generalizing the prisoners' danger?
(a) James G. Randall.
(b) Frank Klement.
(c) Joel H. Silbey.
(d) James McPherson.

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 a Union officer.
(d) By pretending to be from Boston.

5. Which legitimate sailors are sometimes mistaken for blockade-runners?
(a) Union naval sailors.
(b) Crab fishers.
(c) Licensed oystermen.
(d) Canadian sailors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Old Capitol prison?

3. In the "White Flag Affair," how does Union General Christopher C. Augur convince three Confederates to release his captured Union soldiers?

4. How does General Grant propose to exchange civilian hostages?

5. According to Lincoln, what act did President Jefferson commit without having the constitutional power to do so?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the laws of war, what happens to neutral crewmen when a neutral ship is confiscated?

2. How does the USS Niphon capture the Ella and Annie?

3. What happens at Pohick Church in 1861?

4. Why does Joseph G. Knapp complain to Edward Bates?

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

6. Describe Ex parte Milligan.

7. Why is the Union careful to not offend Great Britain?

8. Why does Horatio Seymour quote Lord Coke, by saying, "Where courts of law are open, martial law cannot be executed?"

9. Why does James Bryce liken President Lincoln to Oliver Cromwell?

10. Why does Francis Lieber recommend trials by military commission in 1864?

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