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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Grant's wife?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Julia.
(c) Jan.
(d) Jenn.

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

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

5. What landing do the Federal forces' heavy artillery and supply wagons take a route to after Cold Harbor?
(a) Wyannoke.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Sister Veil.
(d) Shenandoah.

6. Who receives word that Sherman has captured Atlanta?
(a) Lee.
(b) Meade.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Grant.

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

8. What belonging to Lee is greatly outnumbered by Confederate forces?
(a) His friends.
(b) His supplies.
(c) His cavalry.
(d) His tanks.

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

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

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

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

13. What goes nowhere ecause Lincoln wants to preserve the Union?
(a) Victory announcement.
(b) Sharing of war spoils.
(c) Division of land.
(d) Peace negotiations.

14. What issue is emotional and political to Confederates regardless of why the Civil War is being waged?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Emancipation of women.
(c) The control of lands.
(d) Power struggles.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the Confederate capital under seige?

4. Who is Lee's nephew?

5. Who decides not to attend the surrender of arms ceremony?

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