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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Slavery Must be Cleaned Out.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which individual won the nomination for governor of Ohio on an antiwar platform in June 1863?
(a) Chauncey Welton.
(b) Clement L. Vallandigham.
(c) James Vernon.
(d) Marcus Speigel.

2. After the story from the soldier who experienced the glaze of war during the battle at Gaines Mill, McPherson notes that another term for this phenomenon is what?
(a) Battle craze.
(b) Military insanity.
(c) Combat narcosis.
(d) Enraged glory.

3. After the battle of Fredericksburg, which famous writer visited his brother, a lieutenant in the 51st New York, after the man had been wounded?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) Upton Sinclair.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Walt Whitman.

4. After the battle of Chancellorville, a lieutenant in the 17th Connecticut wrote home that the captain had resigned and gone home; what was the captain's name?
(a) Captain Sully.
(b) Captain Thomas.
(c) Captain Marks.
(d) Captain Lucy.

5. When McPherson talks about the ways in which the eagerness for battle was not unique to Civil War soldiers, he mentions the same phenomenon during which war?
(a) World War II.
(b) Revolutionary War.
(c) World War I.
(d) Vietnam War.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a Quaker captain in the 5th New Jersey was threatened to be turned out of his faith if he did not resign, he found he could not leave and was later killed in which battle?

2. From which state was the private who wrote in January 1862, after speaking to a slave whose husband had been beaten, that he was convinced of the "cruelty and inhumanity of the system"?

3. In "Chapter 6: A Band of Brothers," McPherson states that in the Confederacy, which state endured a great deal of disdain from other states?

4. After the discussion of "short-timers" psychology, McPherson notes what percentage of 3-year enlisted Union soldiers from 1861 reenlisted?

5. After the battle of Fredericksburg, the 10th New York had fought six battles in as many months and had lost all but how many men?

(see the answer key)

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