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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Grant want to go to return to his wife and children?
(a) Vermont.
(b) New York.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Massachusetts.

2. Who does Lee visit that lost his will to fight at Gettysburg when he led a disastrous charge?
(a) Pickett.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Meade.
(d) Gordon.

3. What do Lee's men begin to abandon, revealing their loss of morale?
(a) Their hats.
(b) Their boots.
(c) Their muskets.
(d) Their uniforms.

4. Who contradicts Sheridan's orders by telling Chamberlain to not go over the crest of a hill because he would expose his troops to fire?
(a) Sorrel.
(b) Brigand.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Ord.

5. Who will not take the initiative like Stonewall Jackson had for the Confederates?
(a) Ewell.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Meade.

6. Who tells Grant that he would have been willing to allow slavery?
(a) Sorrel.
(b) Lee.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Lincoln.

7. What army can be split and defeated if Lee can make a rail line that would take his army southward?
(a) Union.
(b) Canadian.
(c) Anarchist.
(d) Confederate.

8. What is Mark Twain's profession that introduces him to former Civil War generals?
(a) Singer.
(b) Artist.
(c) Marketing agent.
(d) Publisher.

9. Who orders Chamberlain to take out the Confederate artillery?
(a) Meade.
(b) Griffin.
(c) Lee.
(d) Sorrel.

10. The Civil War was about the states' right to _____ from the Union.
(a) Join.
(b) Expand.
(c) Secede.
(d) Diminish.

11. Who orders Meade to use the Fifth and Eighteenth Corps instead of the black troops?
(a) Sorrel.
(b) Lee.
(c) Grant.
(d) Johnson.

12. Who takes Petersburg while the Federal soldiers take Richmond?
(a) Grant.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Lee.

13. Where does Lee move after the Civil War has ended?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Lexington.
(d) Norfolk.

14. What belonging to Lee is greatly outnumbered by Confederate forces?
(a) His friends.
(b) His supplies.
(c) His cavalry.
(d) His tanks.

15. Who evacuated Atlanta after attempting to stop Sherman's march to the sea three times?
(a) Grant.
(b) Lee.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Hood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who surrenders to the Federal soldiers?

2. Who misses Stuart's leadership of the cavalry?

3. Grant rides out to Sheridan's position south of ___________, anticipating that Lee will try to go to Danville.

4. What is lacking in Meade's troops that Grant says he is used to but surprises Meade when they meet?

5. What issue is emotional and political to Confederates regardless of why the Civil War is being waged?

(see the answer keys)

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