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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what group will Chamberlain's new assignment as commander be?
(a) Third Brigade.
(b) First Brigade.
(c) Fourth Brigade.
(d) Second Brigade.

2. Who wonders why God had chosen to take Stonewall Jackson?
(a) Bragg.
(b) Longstreet.
(c) Lee.
(d) Sherman.

3. What has Longstreet failed to do that allows Grant the upper hand when considering Lee's troop size?
(a) Blow up the enemy.
(b) Join his troops.
(c) Leave his troops.
(d) Attack supplies.

4. Who is the first military commander for the Federal forces?
(a) Davis.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Chamberlain.
(d) Grant.

5. What practice of the commander do foreign dignitaries mock when they visit his quarters?
(a) Doing yoga.
(b) Whittling wood.
(c) Smoking tobacco.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prepares his Confederate cavalry to meet Sheridan's larger force?

2. Who expresses his frustration with bad intelligence where nothing that had been thought true the day before proves to be so?

3. What does Grant want most from the war?

4. From what period do terribly bloody battles follow one another according to Shaara?

5. Who brings his Federal soldiers against Hill on the Confederate left flank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chamberlain find absurd yet necessary about desertion in the army?

2. After the failed Hancock attack, what does Lee think about God and believe will happen to Longstreet?

3. How does Shaara reveal who the significant characters of "The Last Full Measure" are?

4. When Chamberlain recovers in bed, what does he contemplate about the war?

5. How does Grant get Meade on his side working together to fight the Confederates?

6. Who is General Sedgwick and how does he die?

7. Why does Lee want to resign?

8. How does Shaara effectively change the mood of Chapter 1 from despair to some possibility for hope?

9. How does Grant relieve his frustration by cutting wood?

10. Why does Grant fight in the Civil War?

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