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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, If I Flinched, I Was Ruined.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As McPherson discusses the initial impulse that prompted men to enlist on both sides after the raid on Fort Sumter he references which of the following French terms?
(a) Rage militaire.
(b) Vide en haut.
(c) Folie.
(d) Combattre pret.

2. An experience at Gaines Mill on June 27, 1862, where the Union line slowly began to leak stragglers, was described by a corporal from which state?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Georgia.

3. During the discussion of alcohol abuse in some regiments, from which state was the sergeant who wrote that the captains were rum suckers?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Virginia.

4. In May 1861, a lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment wrote he would not enlist for a period longer than ________, unless his country needed him, in which case he'd enlist for life.
(a) 2 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 9 months.

5. A private in the 1st Virginia reported, after the battle of Sharpsburg, that a man in the 24th Virginia was whipped publicly for cowardice; how many lashes did the man receive?
(a) 16.
(b) 39.
(c) 42.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. As McPherson talks about the literacy rates during the Civil War, he says that what percentage of Union soldiers were literate?

2. When an immigrant worker in a Philadelphia textile mill wrote to his father to explain his enlistment, he said if secession were allowed, the United States might end up worse than what country?

3. 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?

4. As McPherson recounts the experience of Patrick Cronan, he says that Cronan was a "street bully" who was eventually court martialed and made to wear a board with what word?

5. In July 1861, what battle caused Northern volunteers to flock to the army?

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