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

2. Who is killed by Federal soldiers, shot clean through the heart like a deer?
(a) Lee.
(b) Grant.
(c) Hill.
(d) Sheridan.

3. 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) Vinland.
(c) Annabelle.
(d) Stedman.

4. What is Mark Twain's profession that introduces him to former Civil War generals?
(a) Marketing agent.
(b) Singer.
(c) Publisher.
(d) Artist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Grant want to go to return to his wife and children?

2. Grant rides out to Sheridan's position south of ___________, anticipating that Lee will try to go to Danville.

3. Who is Grant's wife?

4. Who reassures Grant that the war is still his call and that Washington politics will not interfere with his decisions?

5. Who receives word that Sherman has captured Atlanta?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lee fail to attend the surrender ceremony?

2. How is Lee's desperation evident at Christmas?

3. Why do the peace negotiations between Lincoln and the Confederate officials go nowhere?

4. How does Grant succeed monetarily through his memoirs?

5. What is the oddity regarding soldiers who can view their own deaths in the war?

6. How does Lee finally accept Grant's offer to discuss surrender?

7. Why is Lee worried about shifting command to Beauregard?

8. How does the crater become a death trap for the Federal soldiers?

9. What is the irony in Chamberlain's death at the time of World War I?

10. Why does Appomattox signify the end of the Civil War?

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