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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 goes nowhere ecause Lincoln wants to preserve the Union?
(a) Victory announcement.
(b) Division of land.
(c) Peace negotiations.
(d) Sharing of war spoils.

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

3. What is the Confederate capital under seige?
(a) Chesapeake.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Norfolk.
(d) Richmond.

4. The Civil War was about the states' right to _____ from the Union.
(a) Expand.
(b) Diminish.
(c) Secede.
(d) Join.

5. 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?
(a) Meade.
(b) Lee.
(c) Hancock.
(d) Sorrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What issue is emotional and political to Confederates regardless of why the Civil War is being waged?

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

3. Who does Lee admire as the irst President of the United States?

4. Who engage with Gordon's troops at Saylor's Creek?

5. Who is Lee's nephew?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Grant tempted to drink alcohol after Cold Harbor?

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

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

7. What does Lee fear about central leadership proposed in a message from Richmond?

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

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

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

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