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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 The Wilderness, Section 5 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 1 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.
(a) Biology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Law.
(d) Medicine.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) Boston Gazette.
(b) Harvard Magazine.
(c) New Yorker.
(d) Atlantic Monthly.

3. The military leaders during the time of the civil war were often chosen due to __________.
(a) Political influence.
(b) Military training.
(c) Battle prowess.
(d) Demonstrated leadership.

4. The Battle of the Wilderness was fought by generals Lee and ________.
(a) Wright.
(b) 'Stonewall Jackson.'
(c) Grant.
(d) McClellan.

5. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.
(a) Raleigh.
(b) Boston.
(c) Jamestown.
(d) Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.

2. Holmes was wounded ______ times during the Civil War.

3. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.

4. In the North, people were split between the Abolitionists and the _________.

5. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.

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