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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Lee (October-December 1863): Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee accept as divine judgment at Gettysburg?
(a) Success.
(b) Defeat.
(c) Ambiguity.
(d) Chaos.

2. What do Confederate soldiers enter at Bristol station that Chamberlain notices takes them into a perfect trap?
(a) Crossfire.
(b) Grenades.
(c) Fire.
(d) Eruptions.

3. Who has been criticized as losing the Battle of Gettysburg?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Longfellow.
(c) Lee.
(d) Longstreet.

4. Who shot Stonewall Jackson during the Battle of Chancellorsville?
(a) His own men.
(b) The commander.
(c) His best friend.
(d) The general.

5. Who does Chamberlain talk to in Northern Virginia about his new assignment as commander?
(a) Lee.
(b) Grant.
(c) Griffin.
(d) Stuart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose army was defeated at Gettysburg?

2. From what period do terribly bloody battles follow one another according to Shaara?

3. Who had pressed the Federal soldiers hard at Chickamauga?

4. What troops hide behind a railroad cut near the Bristol Station?

5. Who meets Chamberlain at the train station?

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