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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, On the Altar of My Country.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As McPherson describes how soldiers on both sides were spoiling for a fight, he mentions an expression denoting exciting experiences: see the _________?
(a) Bear.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Donkey.
(d) Canary.

2. As the excitement for battle raced across the country, the governor of Ohio said he could not send the requested thirteen regiments but would send how many?
(a) 16.
(b) 20.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

3. When talking about the relationships between enlisted men and their officers, McPherson notes a major from which state who visited his sick and wounded soldiers every day?
(a) Illinois.
(b) New York.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. After the attack on Fort Sumter, all BUT WHICH of the following states joined the other seven Southern states that had seceded prior to April, 1861?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Indiana.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Virginia.

5. Which of the following Generals retrieved his character during the Battle of Fair Oaks?
(a) General James Thomas.
(b) General Mercer Tomlinson.
(c) General Willis Gorman.
(d) General Lewis Armistead.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the battle of Seven Pines, a captain from which state wrote that he was fine as long as there was battle but that afterward he was quite sick for a few days?

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?

3. According to "Chapter 4: If I Flinched I Was Ruined," the ultimate test of leadership was what?

4. In "Chapter 3: Anxious for the Fray," soldiers on both sides were afraid the war would be over before they had a chance to do anything, a fear written by a recruit from which regiment?

5. After discussing how the language of soldiers in letters home is cliche today, McPherson says that which writer noted that World War I made words like "glory" mock-heroic?

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