According to historian Barbara Field, the Civil War can still be lost.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

Before Lincoln's assassination, no president of the United States had ever been murdered while in office.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

By 1865, the fear of starvation in the North was greater than the fear of attacking Confederate troops.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B

Ironically, in 1865, the same year that slavery was officially abolished by the 13th Amendment, the Ku Klux Klan was formed.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

In retaliation for the murder of surrendering black soldiers by Nathan Bedford Forrest at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, General Grant halted the prisoner exchange with the Confederacy.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

Efforts of civilians and organizations such as the Sanitation Commission cut disease rates among Civil War soldiers in half.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

The effort to undermine Confederate lines at The Crater failed because the engineering was tragically faulty. 
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B

Soldiers in both armies played baseball. 
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

The valiant Confederate Navy frustrated Farragut's every attempt to take the port of Mobile. 
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B

John Bell Hood, despite having lost his leg in one battle and having an arm disabled in another, was the boldest of Confederate commanders. 
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

Both the North and the South were almost out of men of fighting age by 1864. 
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B

The primary diplomatic responsibility that Secretary of State William Seward assumed during the war was to keep England and France from recognizing the Confederacy.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

The Union Congress, rather than the Confederate Congress passed the first draft law in American history in 1862 as voluntary military enlistments began to decline.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B

The Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln issued in 1862 was designed to meet the political purpose of satisfying abolitionists and conservatives alike.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

In Union Army camps, black soldiers experienced wage and job discrimination and segregation.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

Throughout his tenure, Lincoln faced insignificant political divisiveness, as political opponents put the war effort above their political concerns.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B

According to some historians, the United States was a theoretical country before the Civil War, but became an actual country after that conflict.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A

After the defeat of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee was held personally responsible for the loss and was vilified throughout the North and the South as the treasonous leader of the whole affair, and therefore spent two years in prison.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B