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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who makes a serious mistake at Cold Harbor?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Ewell.
(c) Lee.
(d) Grant.
2. Who receives orders from Sheridan to move his forces forward from Saylor's Creek to Appomattox?
(a) Stuart.
(b) Grant.
(c) Lee.
(d) Chamberlain.
3. What does Lee try to protect but is pushed back by an all-out assault, forced to retreat across the Appomattox River?
(a) Knox.
(b) Arlington.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Petersburg.
4. What issue is emotional and political to Confederates regardless of why the Civil War is being waged?
(a) Emancipation of women.
(b) The control of lands.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Power struggles.
5. Who is the best officer that Lee has after Jackson dies?
(a) Ewell.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Sorrel.
(d) Stuart.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose army is starving and expects a shipment of rations for his men to arrive?
2. What tremendous advantage does the Union forces have over the Confederate ones in delivering supplies?
3. Who is nominated for a second term as President?
4. What is the real name of Mark Twain?
5. Who leads his Fifth Corps toward Petersburg along with Meade's forces?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Lee finally accept Grant's offer to discuss surrender?
2. What is the irony in Chamberlain's death at the time of World War I?
3. How does Shaara powerfully convey the death of Hill, one of Lee's leaders through a third-person point of view of an unknown officier?
4. What is the oddity regarding soldiers who can view their own deaths in the war?
5. What does Lee fear about central leadership proposed in a message from Richmond?
6. What is Lee forced to accept in his leadership after Jackson dies?
7. Why do the peace negotiations between Lincoln and the Confederate officials go nowhere?
8. Why is Lee worried about shifting command to Beauregard?
9. What is the technique employed to break into the Confederate line proposed by Pleasant?
10. How does Grant recognize Lee's hopeless situation after Lee's troops fail to burn the bridges?
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