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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chamberlain (April 12, 1865) Lee (April 12, 1865) Grant (April 14, 1865): Chapter 53-55.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has given Sheridan permission to attack and eliminate the Confederate cavalry?
(a) Stuart.
(b) Grant.
(c) Lee.
(d) Sorrel.

2. After the Federal soldiers cross James River, to whom does the command of Confederate soldiers go?
(a) Grant.
(b) Beauregard.
(c) Meade.
(d) Sorrel.

3. What landing do the Federal forces' heavy artillery and supply wagons take a route to after Cold Harbor?
(a) Sister Veil.
(b) Wyannoke.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Shenandoah.

4. What does Shaara employ to illustrate the battles that led to the failure at Bristol?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Flashbacks.
(d) Irony.

5. Whose reinforcements arrive after marching thirty miles in less than two days?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Shaara.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Longstreet.

Short Answer Questions

1. By default, what practice do the Southerners want to maintain in the Civil War?

2. Who receives orders from Sheridan to move his forces forward from Saylor's Creek to Appomattox?

3. Under Lee's leadership, what had become the primary method of fighting the war?

4. Who is Grant's wife?

5. Who surrenders to the Federal soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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