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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) Stuart.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Meade.
(d) Lee.

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

3. Who surrenders to the Federal soldiers?
(a) Confederate soldiers.
(b) Sorrel and soldiers.
(c) Grant and soldiers.
(d) McNamara and soldiers.

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

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

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

7. 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) Ord.
(b) Brigand.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Sorrel.

8. What does Lee's forces lack, forcing the Confederates into a defensive position?
(a) Mobility.
(b) Agility.
(c) Power.
(d) Strength.

9. Who is captured by Confederate troops but pulls off a ruse?
(a) Sorrel.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Chamberlain.
(d) Gordon.

10. Who does Grant send to gain control of the Shenandoah Valley and prevent Lee from moving north?
(a) Early.
(b) Sheridan.
(c) Lee.
(d) Stuart.

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

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

13. Who is the best officer that Lee has after Jackson dies?
(a) Ewell.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Sorrel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After the Federal soldiers cross James River, to whom does the command of Confederate soldiers go?

4. Who does Lee visit that lost his will to fight at Gettysburg when he led a disastrous charge?

5. Who orders Meade to use the Fifth and Eighteenth Corps instead of the black troops?

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