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

2. Grant rides out to Sheridan's position south of ___________, anticipating that Lee will try to go to Danville.
(a) Petersburg.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Amelia.

3. The victory at Cold Harbor for the Confederates was the result of a ________________.
(a) Lot of planning.
(b) Thunderstorm.
(c) Happy accident.
(d) Mistake on the Union side.

4. Who makes a serious mistake at Cold Harbor?
(a) Grant.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Ewell.
(d) Lee.

5. Who leads the Confederates in opposition to Sherman?
(a) Stuart.
(b) Meade.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Sorrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lee's forces lack, forcing the Confederates into a defensive position?

2. How far apart are Lee's soldiers fter the failed attempt to implement Gordon's plan?

3. Who iscovers that Grant has not retreated and is moving his army toward the North Anna River with the intent to cross and move farther south?

4. Whose troops does Lee send to attack Washington and thereby reduce Grant's force near Petersburg?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. How does Grant succeed monetarily through his memoirs?

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

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

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

8. How does access to water offer an advantage to Grant over Lee?

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

10. How does the battle at Fort Stedman begin initially by accident?

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