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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Lee (March 31, 1865) Chamberlain (April 1, 1865) Lee (April 2, 1865): Chapters 41-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Fort does Lee have to take as part of the bold plan of turning the Union cannons on the Federal entrenched line?
(a) Vinland.
(b) Stedman.
(c) Ticonderoga.
(d) Annabelle.

2. What was not thorough enough according to Hill that caused the failed attack at Bristol?
(a) Reconnaissance.
(b) Planning.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Hard work.

3. Who suggests that a war council would have helped prevent the first failed attempt on attacking Lee's center?
(a) Warren.
(b) Meade.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Sedgwick.

4. What does Lee's forces lack, forcing the Confederates into a defensive position?
(a) Mobility.
(b) Strength.
(c) Agility.
(d) Power.

5. Who tells Grant that he would have been willing to allow slavery?
(a) Stuart.
(b) Lee.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Sorrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prepares his Confederate cavalry to meet Sheridan's larger force?

2. What is lacking in Meade's troops that Grant says he is used to but surprises Meade when they meet?

3. Who sends a communication to Grant, informing him that the enemy is advancing on the Orange Turnpike?

4. Who has an illness that takes him out of fighting on behalf of the Confederates, disappointing Lee?

5. To what army does Chamberlain return in Northern Virginia in Chapter 3?

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