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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. What is the luxury item that Grant has for dessert with his troops?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Sugary dates.
(c) Plums.
(d) Licorice.

2. How far apart are Lee's soldiers fter the failed attempt to implement Gordon's plan?
(a) 10 feet.
(b) 12 feet.
(c) 6 feet.
(d) 9 feet.

3. What do Lee's men begin to abandon, revealing their loss of morale?
(a) Their uniforms.
(b) Their muskets.
(c) Their boots.
(d) Their hats.

4. Who halts his troops while a Confederate officer rides his way under a white flag?
(a) Chamberlain.
(b) Lee.
(c) Grant.
(d) Ord.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the real name of Mark Twain?

2. The Civil War was about the states' right to _____ from the Union.

3. Who tells Grant that he would have been willing to allow slavery?

4. What Fort does Lee have to take as part of the bold plan of turning the Union cannons on the Federal entrenched line?

5. Where does Lee move after the Civil War has ended?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the technique employed to break into the Confederate line proposed by Pleasant?

2. What does Chamberlain realize about the fight at Saylor's Creek?

3. How does Grant recognize Lee's hopeless situation after Lee's troops fail to burn the bridges?

4. How do Confederate troops show their obedience to Gordon in the surrender ceremony?

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

6. What is Lee forced to accept in his leadership after Jackson dies?

7. Why is Lee disappointed that Lincoln is reelected?

8. How does Shaara powerfully convey the death of Hill, one of Lee's leaders through a third-person point of view of an unknown officier?

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

10. How does Lincoln's nomination affect the Federal soldiers and their confidence in victory?

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