Episode Five: 1863 - THE UNIVERSE OF BATTLE  -  When Lee's army entered Pennsylvania,
A. local citizens greeted them with offers of food.
B. General Hooker requested permission to attack.
C. Confederate soldiers captured black residents and sent them South into slavery.
D. the men were instructed to beware of copperheads in the area.
Answer: C

George Pickett
A. was a history professor from the University of Virginia.
B. became famous for a gallant but hopeless charge against a Union position at Gettysburg.
C. was a riverboat gambler who spied for the Union.
D. advocated guerrilla warfare.
Answer: B

Which of the following methods was not attempted in Union efforts to take Vicksburg:
A. cutting canals through the bayous.
B. bombardment.
C. digging a tunnel under the walls through which Union troops could enter the city and surprise the Confederates.
D. a frontal attack.
Answer: C

After the battle of Chickamauga, Lincoln compared General Rosecrans to
A. "noble Caesar."
B. "a duck hit on the head."
C. Saint Peter, and called him "the rock of Chickamauga."
D. Ulysses S. Grant.
Answer: B

The 1st South Carolina Volunteers was the unit in the United States Army composed of
A. white southerners who remained loyal to the Union.
B. free blacks from the North.
C. southern black men, many of whom had been slaves.
D. a group of immigrants so shocked by the attacks on blacks in the draft riots that they wanted to fight to end slavery.
Answer: C

Episode Six: 1864 - THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH  - Ulysses S. Grant was
A. the most successful of the seven lieutenant generals whom Lincoln called on to try to crush the Confederacy.
B. the first general to hold the permanent rank of lieutenant general in the United States Army since George Washington.
C. named lieutenant general as reward for a decisive victory.
D. relieved of duty despite having achieved the rank of lieutenant general after the battle of Chattanooga.
Answer: B

Robert E. Lee was
A. a Virginia farmer who answered the call to duty.
B. a self-made man who, with strength of character, rose to head the United States Army before casting his lot with the Confederacy.
C. a Virginia aristocrat and career army officer who was offered the command of the United States Army in 1861.
D. a Virginian of an old family who, true to the slaveholding southern way of life, immediately embraced secession and returned to his home state to head the Confederate army.
Answer: C

Clara Barton was
A. the most daring of the several famous female Confederate spies.
B. a determined friend of peace who tried to persuade both the Confederate and Union governments to end the war.
C. the most famous of the dedicated women who served the wounded in hospitals.
D. a remarkable Richmond woman who directed the world's largest hospital that treated thousands of wounded men.	
Answer: C

The poet Walt Whitman
A. was the most majestic voice of the South's tragic cause.
B. nursed wounded soldiers in Union hospitals.
C. having seen the horrors of war in the hospitals, called for peace negotiations.
D. was one of the many great American writers - including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry Adams - who fought valiantly in the Union Army.
Answer: B

Sherman's goal, as he moved out of Tennessee, was
A. the crucial Confederate port of Mobile.
B. to join Grant and surround Lee at Richmond.
C. Atlanta, a rail center in the heart of the deep South.
D. the nearest port on the Atlantic coast.
Answer: C

Episode Seven: 1864 - MOST HALLOWED GROUND - Jubal Early 
A. sacked Washington, D.C. Only Mary Todd Lincoln's quick action saved the paintings in the White House. 
B. caused a frightened Abraham Lincoln to seek refuge in Baltimore. 
C. crossed the Potomac and got as close to Washington, D. C. as Silver Spring, Maryland. 
D. missed taking Washington because, like his fellow cavalry officer, J. E. B. Stuart, he failed to obey orders and stay in close communication with Robert E. Lee. 
Answer: C

Astute southern historians have noted that Jefferson Davis was like Lincoln in only one of the following ways. Circle the characteristic they shared. 
A. They were given to moments of deep introspection and periods of bleak depression.
B. They were skillful in handling rival politicians in their cabinets. 
C. They had remarkable ability to win the sympathy and support of ordinary men and women. 
D. They had senses of humor that smoothed difficult political negotiations and got them through 
Answer: A

Episode Eight: 1865 - WAR IS ALL HELL  - Shelby Foote calls Sherman "the first modern general." Which of the following was an old-fashioned type of war-making that he did not employ?
A. demoralizing civilians.
B. disrupting communications and supply lines.
C. arrogantly ignoring concepts of "honor" and "decency".
D. carefully planned step-by-step massing of troops for assault.
Answer: D

Southern women probably hated Sherman more than any other northern general because
A. he killed more of their sons, husbands, and brothers than any other Union general.
B. he was blatantly in support of having slaves join the Union army as revenge against their masters. *c. he laid waste to houses, gardens, livestock - the livelihood of the South, and caused humiliating demoralization of the white civilian population.
D. he made outrageously insulting remarks suggesting that they were women of the street.	
Answer: C

The strategies of Confederate General Hood and Union General Sherman in the fall of 1864 were remarkably similar: a bold attempt to reach deep into enemy territory. Sherman was headed for the Atlantic; Hood for the Ohio River and then north through the Midwest. Sherman succeeded, Hood failed, because
A. Hood was far less bold than his Union counterpart.
B. Hood encountered a fresh, able Union army led by George Thomas that was larger than his own.
C. Hood refused to subject civilians to his will.
D. Hood's men did not have the stomach to fight anymore.
Answer: B

When Jefferson Davis said that if the Confederate States of America were to succumb, it could be said that the nation "died of a Theory," the theory he referred to was
A. states' rights.
B. taxation without representation.
C. democratic election of officers by army units.
D. too much power in the hands of congress.	
Answer: A

Which of the following had not taken to the roads as refugees by 1864?
A. white civilians fleeing Sherman's army.	.	
B. black civilians fleeing slavery and Confederate armies.
C. black men avoiding rapacious army recruiters.	
D. deserting soldiers.
Answer: C

Episode Nine: 1865 - THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE - John Wilkes Booth was	
A. carefully trained by Jefferson Davis's secret service.
B. a devoted Confederate soldier making a final effort for victory.
C. an actor between engagements.	
D. a fanatic known to have been insane.
Answer: C

Which of the following did not occur the day that Lincoln died?	
A. African Americans stood on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, weeping.
B. Soldiers of both armies momentarily broke out of their customary discipline & engaged in violent unrest.
C. Extreme abolitionists, though saddened, expected a more radical Reconstruction from the new president, Andrew Johnson, a tough southern Unionist.	
D. Mary Todd Lincoln was almost deranged by the experience of being present at her husband's murder.
Answer: B

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, forbidding involuntary servitude, was effective in one of the following ways: 
A. It was the basis for getting rid of Maryland's involuntary apprenticeship law which affected both freeborn African Americans and former slaves.	
B. It insured that African Americans in the South could vote.
C. It made certain that in the loyal Union states to which the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply there could be no move to continue or restore slavery.	
D. It persuaded southern landowners that the freed people must have a chance to be independent farmers.
Answer: C