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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Lee upset with that had not taken the initiative to attack the Federal right flank when the opportunity arose?
(a) Ewell.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Grant.
(d) Meade.

3. What is the area that Lee expects to confront Grant in?
(a) Dolomites.
(b) The Wilderness.
(c) Shenandoah.
(d) Pleasant Valley.

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

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

6. Whose quarters do foreign dignitaries visit?
(a) Lee.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Grant.
(d) Ewell.

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

8. Where does Chamberlain return by train?
(a) Portland.
(b) New Brunswick.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

9. When was the Gettsyburg conflict?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1863.

10. When Meade had pressed on his army at Mine Run, who was criticized for his defensive maneuvers?
(a) Longstreet.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Brigand.
(d) Lee.

11. To what army does Chamberlain return in Northern Virginia in Chapter 3?
(a) Southern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Pacific.
(d) Midwestern.

12. What troops come out of the woods at Bristol Station and advance upon Chamberlain?
(a) Renegade.
(b) Unified.
(c) Federal.
(d) Confederate.

13. 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?
(a) The use of tobacco.
(b) The use of trench warfare.
(c) The use of minie balls.
(d) The use of army tanks.

14. Who suggests that a war council would have helped prevent the first failed attempt on attacking Lee's center?
(a) Warren.
(b) Sedgwick.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Meade.

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

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 dismisses Hill's apology for the failed attack at Bristol?

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

4. Before what event had the Federal soldiers lost more times than they won?

5. Who denies a military commander's request for leadership after Gettysburg?

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