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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. What does Grant enjoy eating with his soldiers?
(a) Sirloin steak.
(b) Roasted almonds.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Roast beef.

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

7. What does Lee try to protect but is pushed back by an all-out assault, forced to retreat across the Appomattox River?
(a) Arlington.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Petersburg.
(d) Knox.

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

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

10. What do soldiers do as a sign of respect and by order of General Gordon at the ceremony?
(a) Fix bayonets.
(b) Shoot guns.
(c) Stand at ease.
(d) Throw away muskets.

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

12. What army can be split and defeated if Lee can make a rail line that would take his army southward?
(a) Confederate.
(b) Anarchist.
(c) Union.
(d) Canadian.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Confederate capital under seige?

3. Who is Lee's nephew?

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

5. What is Mark Twain's profession that introduces him to former Civil War generals?

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