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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Wednesday, July 1, 1863, The First Day, Chapter 6, Lee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What order does Lee give to Ewell?
(a) Have the cavalry fight dismounted.
(b) Attack the Union's flank.
(c) Pull back and preserve your troops.
(d) Take the hill if at all possible.

2. What is the first question Chamberlain has for the mutineers?
(a) Where are you from?
(b) How many of you will fight?
(c) When did you last eat?
(d) Why did you mutiny?

3. What does Longstreet want Lee to do when Stuart finally returns?
(a) Reproach him.
(b) Take him out of the cavalry and put him in the infantry.
(c) Court-martial him.
(d) Demote him to private.

4. How is Gettysburg best described?
(a) The second largest city in Pennsylvania.
(b) A small town in the Pennsylvania countryside.
(c) The headquarters of the entire Union army.
(d) A strategically important port town.

5. To whom does Buford send a message regarding the Rebel troops?
(a) Gen. Meade
(b) John Reynolds
(c) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
(d) James Longstreet

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lee depend on Longstreet?

2. What does Lee hear as he and Longstreet begin to ride?

3. For whose soul does Lee pray ?

4. Why does Buford pause when writing for help?

5. What is the internal conflict with which Lee struggles?

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