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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. Whose army is starving and expects a shipment of rations for his men to arrive?
(a) Sheridan.
(b) Lee.
(c) Grant.
(d) Hill.

2. What army can be split and defeated if Lee can make a rail line that would take his army southward?
(a) Canadian.
(b) Confederate.
(c) Union.
(d) Anarchist.

3. Near what town does Lee camp out with his nephew, remaining troops, and Longstreet?
(a) Lover's Lane.
(b) Appomattox.
(c) Filo Creek.
(d) Saylor's Creek.

4. 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) Annabelle.
(d) Vinland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who orders Chamberlain to take out the Confederate artillery?

2. Who does Lee visit that lost his will to fight at Gettysburg when he led a disastrous charge?

3. Who is nominated for a second term as President?

4. What belonging to Lee is greatly outnumbered by Confederate forces?

5. What goes nowhere ecause Lincoln wants to preserve the Union?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Chamberlain rides back to the battle, how does he fool Confederate soldiers through a ruse?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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