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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the commander of the Andersonville prison become for a group of Southerners?
(a) A misunderstood man.
(b) A villain.
(c) A hero.
(d) A dangerous man.

2. What was the name of the first man Horwitz meet on the battlefield?
(a) Markus stall.
(b) Bryson Powers.
(c) Mark Robertson.
(d) Roberto Smill.

3. What was Vicksburg the site of?
(a) A siege.
(b) A small battle.
(c) A major weapons manufacturing plant.
(d) A large fire.

4. where were the dead at Shiloh buried ?
(a) They were left where they fell.
(b) In trenches near where they fell.
(c) In a common graveyard 2 miles out.
(d) They were cremated.

5. What was Dorothy Raybon part of?
(a) Cats of the Confederacy.
(b) Daughters of the Confederacy.
(c) Families of the Confederacy.
(d) Sons of the Confederacy.

6. What was late in April 1862?
(a) The annual reenactment.
(b) School vacations.
(c) Spring.
(d) Tax returns.

7. What celebration did the white inhabitant of Vicksburg not observe?
(a) Veteran's Day.
(b) Defeat Day.
(c) Memorial Day.
(d) Victory day.

8. When does the curriculum for history start on the State of Alabama?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1975.

9. What did Horwitz speculate might be better in order to move forward?
(a) That People only learn of the battles and not the racial implication.
(b) That people learn about the Civil Wa fromt the same program.
(c) That people only learn that the North won.
(d) That people forget about the Civil War.

10. What diminished over the generations in Fitzgerald?
(a) The numbers of Unions sympathizers.
(b) The number of people living in the two.
(c) The number of Confederate symphatizers.
(d) The spirit of reconciliation.

11. Who was the commander of the Andersonville prison?
(a) Markus Stenbeck.
(b) Henry Wirz.
(c) Robert Patesson.
(d) Robert Swam.

12. What drifted away from Vicksburg in the years before the Civil War?
(a) The garrison.
(b) The Confederate Army.
(c) The frontiere.
(d) The Mississippi river bed.

13. What did Betty Talmadge say of the locations in Gone with the Wind?
(a) They are fictional.
(b) They were rebuilt.
(c) They were destroyed.
(d) They were preserved.

14. What happened to the Andersonville prison commander after the war?
(a) He became a senator.
(b) He became a congressman.
(c) He was tried and executed.
(d) He turned to dentistry.

15. Where did Vicksburg located according to Chapter 9?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Gone with the Wind made into a movie?

2. What was Hodge doing as Horwitz was driving the car?

3. What was the sculpture in the park used as the backdrop for?

4. Who was sworn in as president in the old capitol?

5. What group did Sandy guide through the capitol?

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