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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 begin to question whether their guns work?
(a) Their lack of confidence.
(b) Their own inability.
(c) Their swords have fallen apart.
(d) The rain.

2. Whose mother dies in childbirth?
(a) Sherman's.
(b) Johnston's.
(c) Palmer's.
(d) Grant's.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Palmer when the book begins?

2. How do the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 test their guns?

3. What makes some of the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 yell for joy?

4. Who killed the animal that the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 see and shoot at during their march?

5. What finally cheers the Confederate soldiers on their march in the beginning of the novel?

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