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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Palmer call the Confederate army from the vantage point of a ridge in Chapter 1?
(a) Large army in motion.
(b) Swimming sea of people.
(c) A hurricane of horror.
(d) Tiny, marching ants.

2. Why isn't a surprise attack possible for the Confederates in Chapter 1?
(a) The Union soldiers can see them already.
(b) They have made too much noise.
(c) No one knows where the Union soldiers are.
(d) The generals talked and planned the battle.

3. What makes some of the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 yell for joy?
(a) It begins to rain.
(b) The war is cancelled.
(c) Pie.
(d) The sun comes out.

4. How many Confederate commanders think the battle in Chapter 1 should be called off?
(a) None of them.
(b) Three of five.
(c) All of them.
(d) Only 1.

5. What practical item do many of the Confederate soldiers join the army without?
(a) A birth certificate.
(b) Wives.
(c) A weapon.
(d) Life insurance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the march for the Confederate soldiers at the beginning of the novel so difficult?

2. What is the name of Walter's wife?

3. What does the Union noise that Johnston hears in Chapter 1 signify?

4. What does Walter's commander make the aides and officers do?

5. What provokes Walter's commander to send him with a message to the general that an attack is imminent?

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