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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, We Know That We are Supported at Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Right before the battle of Gettysburg, a lieutenant in the 53rd Georgia wrote to his wife, that Pennsylvania was the greatest country he'd ever seen; what was his wife's name?
(a) Mollie.
(b) Callie.
(c) Mary.
(d) Cellie.

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

3. In the discussion of the officers' views on training, which of the following did a captain in the 85th New York NOT believe would get men to fight well?
(a) Leadership.
(b) Food.
(c) Discipline.
(d) Drill.

4. According to "Chapter 9: Slavery Must be Cleaned Out," what fraction of Union soldiers came from Democratic backgrounds?
(a) 2/5.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 3/5.
(d) 4/5.

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?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Henry James.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the discussion of "short-timers" psychology, the author notes the pride and honor of a soldier were bound up with the pride and honor of all BUT WHICH of these?

2. At the end of "Chapter Two: We Were in Earnest," readers find that the "we were in earnest" chapter title comes from a soldier in which of the following regiments?

3. "Chapter 5: Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers" opens by saying that like _________, bullets fall on the just and unjust alike.

4. As the book opens, McPherson says that he took some Princeton students to Gettysburg in the spring of what year?

5. From which state was the soldier who wrote religious poetry while lying in the trenches, during the battle of Vicksburg?

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