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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appeals to Davis with an idea to bring in new recruits from Georgia?
(a) Meade.
(b) Lee.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Sorrel.

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

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

4. Who halts his troops while a Confederate officer rides his way under a white flag?
(a) Lee.
(b) Ord.
(c) Chamberlain.
(d) Grant.

5. The victory at Cold Harbor for the Confederates was the result of a ________________.
(a) Lot of planning.
(b) Happy accident.
(c) Thunderstorm.
(d) Mistake on the Union side.

6. Who receives orders from Sheridan to move his forces forward from Saylor's Creek to Appomattox?
(a) Lee.
(b) Grant.
(c) Chamberlain.
(d) Stuart.

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

8. 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) Ticonderoga.
(c) Vinland.
(d) Stedman.

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

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

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

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

13. Who goes to Washington after the surrender ceremony and visits Lincoln?
(a) Lee.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Grant.

14. Who orders his generals to continue the ceasefire until he can complete the surrender with Grant?
(a) Chamberlain.
(b) Lee.
(c) Grant.
(d) Ord.

15. Who leads his Fifth Corps toward Petersburg along with Meade's forces?
(a) Chamberlain.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Longstreet.
(d) McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose troops does Lee send to attack Washington and thereby reduce Grant's force near Petersburg?

2. Who is the engineer that came up with the novel idea to blow a hole in the Confederate defense?

3. How long is the pontoon bridge over the James River that the Federal forces pass over?

4. What is the Confederate capital under seige?

5. Who has taken and holds control of the Shenandoah Valley, allowing Lee's army to move westward into the Valley?

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