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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Confederate capital under seige?
(a) Chesapeake.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Norfolk.

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

3. Who is the engineer that came up with the novel idea to blow a hole in the Confederate defense?
(a) Pleasant.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Meade.

4. Whose army is starving and expects a shipment of rations for his men to arrive?
(a) Lee.
(b) Hill.
(c) Sheridan.
(d) Grant.

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

6. What is filled with explosives and blows a hole in the Confederate defense?
(a) Tunnels.
(b) Buildings.
(c) Bunkers.
(d) Planes.

7. Grant rides out to Sheridan's position south of ___________, anticipating that Lee will try to go to Danville.
(a) Amelia.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Petersburg.
(d) Richmond.

8. Who has taken and holds control of the Shenandoah Valley, allowing Lee's army to move westward into the Valley?
(a) Stuart.
(b) Meade.
(c) Early.
(d) Sheridan.

9. Whose troops does Lee send to attack Washington and thereby reduce Grant's force near Petersburg?
(a) Sorrel.
(b) Meade.
(c) Early.
(d) Beauregard.

10. What Fort does Lee have to take as part of the bold plan of turning the Union cannons on the Federal entrenched line?
(a) Annabelle.
(b) Stedman.
(c) Ticonderoga.
(d) Vinland.

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

12. Which officials, consisting of the vice president, assistant secretary of war, and president of the senate, visit Lincoln?
(a) Anarchist.
(b) Union.
(c) Economist.
(d) Confederate.

13. After the Federal soldiers cross James River, to whom does the command of Confederate soldiers go?
(a) Beauregard.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Meade.
(d) Grant.

14. What is lacking in Meade's troops that Grant says he is used to but surprises Meade when they meet?
(a) Strength.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Coordination.
(d) Diligence.

15. What is the surrender ceremony full of?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Violence.
(c) Celebration.
(d) Shooting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lee's nephew?

2. Who halts his troops while a Confederate officer rides his way under a white flag?

3. Who reassures Grant that the war is still his call and that Washington politics will not interfere with his decisions?

4. The Civil War was about the states' right to _____ from the Union.

5. Who is the best officer that Lee has after Jackson dies?

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