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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the new technology in 1913 that Chamberlain experiences that is so different from the Civil War?
(a) An automobile.
(b) A train.
(c) A computer.
(d) A plane.

3. What is the real name of Mark Twain?
(a) Ulysses Grant.
(b) Robert Lee.
(c) Samuel Clemens.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

4. Who will lead his division of Black soldiers into the breach made by blowing a hole in the Confederate defense?
(a) Pleasant.
(b) Meade.
(c) Ferrero.
(d) Johnson.

5. What goes nowhere ecause Lincoln wants to preserve the Union?
(a) Victory announcement.
(b) Division of land.
(c) Peace negotiations.
(d) Sharing of war spoils.

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

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

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

9. Near what town does Lee camp out with his nephew, remaining troops, and Longstreet?
(a) Lover's Lane.
(b) Filo Creek.
(c) Appomattox.
(d) Saylor's Creek.

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

11. Who makes a serious mistake at Cold Harbor?
(a) Ewell.
(b) Grant.
(c) Lee.
(d) Gordon.

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

13. Who marches to the sea, gaining momentum over Confederates?
(a) Sherman.
(b) Markus.
(c) Grant.
(d) Meade.

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

15. Who decides not to attend the surrender of arms ceremony?
(a) Grant.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Lee.
(d) Gordon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lee work, rebuilding the college?

2. Who leads his Fifth Corps toward Petersburg along with Meade's forces?

3. Who iscovers that Grant has not retreated and is moving his army toward the North Anna River with the intent to cross and move farther south?

4. Who is killed by Federal soldiers, shot clean through the heart like a deer?

5. What do soldiers do as a sign of respect and by order of General Gordon at the ceremony?

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