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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Hancock.
(b) Meade.
(c) Lee.
(d) Sorrel.

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

4. Who reassures Grant that the war is still his call and that Washington politics will not interfere with his decisions?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Sherman.

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

6. What is the luxury item that Grant has for dessert with his troops?
(a) Sugary dates.
(b) Plums.
(c) Licorice.
(d) Chocolate.

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

8. Who leads the Confederates in opposition to Sherman?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Meade.

9. What carries ammunition but no food from Richmond?
(a) The truck.
(b) The tank.
(c) The train.
(d) The boat.

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

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

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

13. Who engage with Gordon's troops at Saylor's Creek?
(a) The Anarchist Leaders.
(b) The Union Soldiers.
(c) The Federal Second Corps.
(d) The Confederate Troops.

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

15. How long is the pontoon bridge over the James River that the Federal forces pass over?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) 1/4 mile.
(d) 1 mile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the new technology in 1913 that Chamberlain experiences that is so different from the Civil War?

2. Who does Lee admire as the irst President of the United States?

3. What does Lee try to protect but is pushed back by an all-out assault, forced to retreat across the Appomattox River?

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

5. Who takes Petersburg while the Federal soldiers take Richmond?

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