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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season does the Federal commander send orders to position troops after meeting with Lincoln?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Summer.

2. What practice of the commander do foreign dignitaries mock when they visit his quarters?
(a) Whittling wood.
(b) Doing yoga.
(c) Painting.
(d) Smoking tobacco.

3. What did Stonewall Jackson eventually die of?
(a) Diarrhea.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Broken heart.
(d) Pneumonia.

4. Whose army was defeated at Gettysburg?
(a) Lee.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Chamberlain.
(d) Grant.

5. Through effective leadership, what were the Federal forces capable of doing according to Lincoln?
(a) Winning.
(b) Concessions.
(c) Losing.
(d) Acquisition of land.

6. How does Chamberlain and his wife travel away from the railroad station?
(a) By boat.
(b) By bus.
(c) By metro.
(d) By carriage.

7. When the South cannot waste resources, what became important?
(a) Building armies.
(b) Defending honor.
(c) Fighting agents.
(d) Finding cover.

8. Who suffers from debilitating arthritis that has rendered one of her arms shriveled and useless?
(a) Lee.
(b) Custis.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sherman.

9. Who does Lee go to visit that has become ill but still meets him on his horse on a small road?
(a) Longfellow.
(b) Hill.
(c) Grant.
(d) Sherman.

10. What do the north and south troops NOT share in common?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Cultures.
(c) Language.
(d) Coffee.

11. Who replaces General Meade as the commander of the Federal forces?
(a) Grant.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Lee.

12. What is the first name of Grant?
(a) Mark.
(b) Richard.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Robert.

13. After the failed assault on Hancock's center when the log wall burned, the attack was repulsed. Who died?
(a) Rebel forces.
(b) Lee.
(c) Confederate soldiers.
(d) Grant.

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

15. When does Lee bring his army into Virginia successfully?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1867.

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. What kind of repeating carbines do Sheridan's man have?

3. Where is Lee astride his horse overlooking the Potomac River?

4. What were defensive maneuvers employed when Meade had pressed on his army at Mine Run?

5. What does the Federal commander's work focus on?

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