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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 The Wilderness, Section 5 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 1 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The dominant political party during the time of the Civil War was ________.
(a) Republican Party.
(b) Democratic Party.
(c) Whig Party.
(d) Independent Party

2. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a(n) _________.
(a) Unionist.
(b) Segregationist.
(c) Populist.
(d) Abolitionist.

3. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.
(a) 40 days.
(b) 20 days.
(c) 60 days.
(d) 30 days.

4. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) Atlantic Monthly.
(b) Harvard Magazine.
(c) Boston Gazette.
(d) New Yorker.

5. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.
(a) Wendell Phillips.
(b) John Brown.
(c) Lovejoy.
(d) Dred Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

2. The military leaders during the time of the civil war were often chosen due to __________.

3. The Civil War caused the beliefs of previous times to be __________.

4. The war had been compared to _________ and the Union soldiers rallied themselves around it.

5. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.

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