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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee get his engineers in response to the heavy rain?
(a) A makeshift bridge.
(b) A raincoat.
(c) A tent.
(d) A waterproof house.

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

3. What book is "The Last Full Measure" in Shaara's set of Civil War books?
(a) 4th.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 1st.

4. What has Longstreet failed to do that allows Grant the upper hand when considering Lee's troop size?
(a) Attack supplies.
(b) Blow up the enemy.
(c) Leave his troops.
(d) Join his troops.

5. What has a far weaker central government than the Union?
(a) Liberalists.
(b) Federalists.
(c) Confederation.
(d) Economists.

6. What is lacking in the military preparations for both the northern and southern troops in the Wilderness, making it difficult to find each other?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Strategic planning.
(c) Aerial observations.
(d) Oversight.

7. By default, what practice do the Southerners want to maintain in the Civil War?
(a) Cotton picking.
(b) Primogeniture.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Gender inequality.

8. Who is the commander of the Sixth Corps?
(a) Longstreet.
(b) Meade.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Sedgwick.

9. After the draw battle in the Wilderness, where does Lee race south to set up the defenses?
(a) Shenandoah.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Spotsylvania.

10. What kind of repeating carbines do Sheridan's man have?
(a) 7-shot.
(b) 10-shot.
(c) 4-shot.
(d) 9-shot.

11. Who may have fought with Grant in Mexico but cannot remember any distinguishing characteristics about Grant?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Longstreet.
(d) Lee.

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

13. Who knows that once engaged with Grant, the man will not back down?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Lee.
(d) Longstreet.

14. For mutually beneficial transactions, what were northern and southern troops willing to have temporarily?
(a) A truce.
(b) A fight.
(c) A violation.
(d) A celebration.

15. From what period do terribly bloody battles follow one another according to Shaara?
(a) 1871-1879.
(b) 1867-1868.
(c) 1865-1866.
(d) 1861-1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Federal forces NOT have necessarily that is superior to the Confederate forces?

2. What does Shaara employ to illustrate the battles that led to the failure at Bristol?

3. Who brings his Federal soldiers against Hill on the Confederate left flank?

4. Of what group will Chamberlain's new assignment as commander be?

5. Who wonders why God had chosen to take Stonewall Jackson?

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