View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What difficulty faces Longstreet?
(a) His men lose confidence in his leadership and refuse to fight.
(b) He cannot focus on the battle because he keeps thinking about his dead children.
(c) His horse lames himself, and Longstreet has to find another one.
(d) Not knowing the area well, he's forced to turn his troops around and lead a counter-march.

2. What does Chamberlain hope to get for his men very soon?
(a) Food
(b) New uniforms
(c) New horses
(d) Medals of Honor

3. How does Lee generally handle a battle?
(a) He stays in contact with the officers and directs them several times a day.
(b) He joins the troops in the field and fights at the front of the troops.
(c) He retreats to headquarters and studies his Bible until the battle is over.
(d) He gives his officers orders then lets them do the fighting.

4. Why does Longstreet say Lee should put Hill in command instead of Longstreet?
(a) Longstreet has come down with the old soldier's disease.
(b) Hill earned the right with his victory the day before.
(c) Hill is better at this kind of assault.
(d) The men are mostly Hill's.

5. The song "Kathleen Mavourneen" remind Armistead of ___________.
(a) The last time he saw Winfield Hancock.
(b) The last time he saw his wife.
(c) His former homeland, Ireland.
(d) The first girl he ever loved.

6. Whose absence is once again affecting the Confederate troops?
(a) Meade
(b) Stuart
(c) Campbell
(d) Law

7. Where does Tom get the coffee that he brings to Chamberlain?
(a) From the regiment's rations
(b) From Gen. Meade with his compliments
(c) From captured Rebel soldiers
(d) From dead soldiers

8. What is Armistead's fear at the end?
(a) That he will be punished eternally for his part in this war.
(b) That he will lose honor for not having accomplished his task.
(c) That Mira Hancock will get receive word that both Armistead and Hancock have been killed.
(d) That he will die without seeing Hancock.

9. What does Tom say about the battle the day before?
(a) Many of the men cannot bring themselves to use the bayonets.
(b) Chamberlain should have given a different command.
(c) He had no time to be afraid during the battle.
(d) The bayonets are very effective -- he saw lots of men killed by them.

10. What does the Baptist minister say to Chamberlain about slavery?
(a) It is wrong according to the Bible and every man should fight it.
(b) Chamberlain cannot understand it because he has never lived with the black man.
(c) It is the mark of a doomed society.
(d) There is nothing wrong with it provided the master treats the slave well.

11. What is Stuart's initial response when Lee tells him there are officers who want Stuart court-martialed?
(a) He wants to know who those officers are.
(b) He protests his innocence.
(c) He bows his head in shame.
(d) He offers to resign from his post.

12. What question continues to occasionally plague Chamberlain?
(a) What if it is he who is wrong?
(b) What is this war really about?
(c) How could one man take up arms against another?
(d) What is more important, his duty to his men or his duty to his country?

13. What news about Gen. Ewell does Venable bring to Lee?
(a) Ewell and Early have had a disagreement and there is talk of a duel.
(b) Ewell is not in command but is deferring to Early.
(c) Ewell has been taken sick and can no longer serve.
(d) Ewell has regained control and is gathering his men together.

14. Who does Lee blame for the attack's failure?
(a) Longstreet
(b) Pickett
(c) Ewell
(d) Himself

15. What is Longstreet struggling with throughout the chapter?
(a) Losing faith in the abilities of his men.
(b) Fighting a war that is about slavery.
(c) The loss of Stonewall Jackson.
(d) His disagreement with Lee and whether or not to just follow orders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fremantle think of democracy?

2. What strange action does Chamberlain take under gunfire?

3. What makes the Confederate troops turn back as they start to retreat?

4. Why is the slave shot?

5. What does Chamberlain think about the ground they're holding?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 799 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample