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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the caps of the local high school student celebrate?

2. Where was Horwitz's wife from?

3. What did the father of the grass basket maker warn her about?

4. What did Horwitz admire in Walt?

5. What did the black students of the local high school wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was unique about Henry Wirz's fate?

2. Why was Horwitz thrown out of the bar in Chapter 5?

3. Why did Horwitz see a contradiction between the South's perceived oppression and the reality?

4. Why did Alberta Martin marry her first husband?

5. What did the sign of Montgomery say according to Chapter 14?

6. What did the African American congressman Joe McGill tell Horwtiz about what happened to him during the war?

7. What was the first major battle of the war known as?

8. Who did the Civil War empower according to a 70 year old woman?

9. What does Horwitz say of some of the people feeling pride toward the Confederacy?

10. What did Foote do during his visits of the Shiloh battlefield?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the reasons why a man would feel compelled to trace back an ancestor's actions during a war.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the prison of Andersonville and its history.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the role and fate of Atlanta during the Civil War.

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