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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Nine: The New Reckoning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Meade like his predecessors?
(a) He did not pursue Lee's army to an unconditional surrender, but allowed them to escape.
(b) He was not very intelligent.
(c) He was ill-prepared.
(d) He was fearful.

2. When the 54th of Massachusetts--a Negro outfit--launched a viscous attack against rebels at Fort Wagner, what myth was effectively ended?
(a) Of the unintelligent Negro.
(b) Of the weak Negro.
(c) Of the fearful Negro.
(d) Of the complacent Negro.

3. South Carolina unanimously voted to do what?
(a) Remain peaceful.
(b) Secede from the Union.
(c) Stay with the Union.
(d) Create their own nation.

4. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(b) The Missouri Bill.
(c) The Kansas Bill.
(d) The Nebraska Bill.

5. Lincoln appointed Salmon Chase as what?
(a) Postmaster General.
(b) Treasury Secretary.
(c) Secretary of the Interior.
(d) Secretary of the Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Fredrick Douglass?

2. What two boys were born to the Lincolns?

3. The War Department began mobilizing black regiments, agreeing that black and white outfits would do what?

4. Lincoln still needed more troops, so he enforced what?

5. What did neighbors think about the Lincoln children?

(see the answer key)

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