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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Lee (May 9, 1864) Grant (May 9, 1864): Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under Lee's leadership, what had become the primary method of fighting the war?
(a) Guerrilla tactics.
(b) Offense.
(c) Fear mongering.
(d) Defense.

2. Who brings his Federal soldiers against Hill on the Confederate left flank?
(a) Longstreet.
(b) Meade.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Burnside.

3. Who denies a military commander's request for leadership after Gettysburg?
(a) Davis.
(b) Lee.
(c) Grant.
(d) Longfellow.

4. Whose army is defeated and retreating that Lee watches from his horse?
(a) Chamberlain's forces.
(b) His army.
(c) Grant's army.
(d) Stuart's forces.

5. What is Lee's horse's name?
(a) Guest.
(b) Traveler.
(c) Othello.
(d) Markus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who expresses his frustration with bad intelligence where nothing that had been thought true the day before proves to be so?

2. Who moves his Confederates against Warren's Federal soldiers, who are trying to hold a crossroads on the Orange Turnpike?

3. What does Lee see the Southern resistance in the Civil War as representative of?

4. Shaara offers biographies on which of the following leaders?

5. What is new in the Civil War in comparison to previous wars that had been fought over open country with the occasional use of existing walls for cover?

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