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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grant rides out to Sheridan's position south of ___________, anticipating that Lee will try to go to Danville.
(a) Amelia.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Petersburg.

2. What issue is emotional and political to Confederates regardless of why the Civil War is being waged?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Emancipation of women.
(c) Power struggles.
(d) The control of lands.

3. Who marches to the sea, gaining momentum over Confederates?
(a) Markus.
(b) Grant.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Meade.

4. Who comes up with a bold plan that must be carried out flawlessly for Lee?
(a) Pickett.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Meade.

5. Who leads the Confederates in opposition to Sherman?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Meade.
(d) Sorrel.

6. What is filled with explosives and blows a hole in the Confederate defense?
(a) Tunnels.
(b) Bunkers.
(c) Buildings.
(d) Planes.

7. Where does Grant want to go to return to his wife and children?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New York.

8. What is the surrender ceremony full of?
(a) Celebration.
(b) Violence.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Shooting.

9. Who will lead his division of Black soldiers into the breach made by blowing a hole in the Confederate defense?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Pleasant.
(c) Meade.
(d) Ferrero.

10. Who is Lee's nephew?
(a) Fitz Lee.
(b) Chamberlain.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Stuart.

11. Who tells Grant that he would have been willing to allow slavery?
(a) Lee.
(b) Sorrel.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Lincoln.

12. Who is killed by Federal soldiers, shot clean through the heart like a deer?
(a) Hill.
(b) Lee.
(c) Sheridan.
(d) Grant.

13. What is the luxury item that Grant has for dessert with his troops?
(a) Licorice.
(b) Plums.
(c) Sugary dates.
(d) Chocolate.

14. What do Lee's men begin to abandon, revealing their loss of morale?
(a) Their hats.
(b) Their muskets.
(c) Their boots.
(d) Their uniforms.

15. Who is the engineer that came up with the novel idea to blow a hole in the Confederate defense?
(a) Meade.
(b) Pleasant.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who contradicts Sheridan's orders by telling Chamberlain to not go over the crest of a hill because he would expose his troops to fire?

2. What do soldiers do as a sign of respect and by order of General Gordon at the ceremony?

3. Where does Lee work, rebuilding the college?

4. Who does Lee visit that lost his will to fight at Gettysburg when he led a disastrous charge?

5. What does Grant enjoy eating with his soldiers?

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