SparkNotes: The Killer Angels: Quiz

1. From where is Joshua L. Chamberlain?

(A) Georgia

(B) Virginia

(C) New Hampshire

(D) Maine

2. Who tells Longstreet that the Union army is very close by?

(A) General Lee

(B) Harrison

(C) Sorrel

(D) General J. E. B. Stuart

3. What part of General Lee causes him pain?

(A) His knee

(B) His heart

(C) His arm

(D) His toe

4. Who leads the Union cavalry?

(A) General John Reynolds

(B) General J. E. B. Stuart

(C) General John Buford

(D) Sorrel

5. Which of the following is not a battle site?

(A) Follicle Hill

(B) Cemetery Ridge

(C) Little Round Top

(D) Big Round Top

6. Which general leads the Union forces at Gettysburg?

(A) Robert E. Lee

(B) George C. Meade

(C) Ulysses S. Grant

(D) Arthur Fremantle

7. Which Union officer is killed just as the battle begins?

(A) Buford

(B) Chamberlain

(C) Reynolds

(D) Kilrain

8. Which Confederate general fails in his assignment of monitoring the movements of the Union army?

(A) Stuart

(B) Ewell

(C) Armistead

(D) Longstreet

9. How long did the Battle of Gettysburg last?

(A) One week

(B) Three days

(C) Five days

(D) One day

10. Which famous general of the Confederate army a few weeks before the Battle of Gettysburg?

(A) “Stonewall” Jackson

(B) J. E. B. Stuart

(C) James Longstreet

(D) Jubal Early

11. What physical ailment bothers General Lee during the battle?

(A) Headaches

(B) A stiff leg

(C) Heart problems

(D) Backache

12. Which Confederate general did not survive the Battle of Gettysburg?

(A) J. E. B. Stuart

(B) James Longstreet

(C) George Pickett

(D) Lew Armistead

13. Which soldier has a brother under his own command?

(A) Joshua L. Chamberlain

(B) Robert E. Lee

(C) James Longstreet

(D) George Pickett

14. What is the capital of the Confederacy?

(A) Richmond

(B) Washington, D.C.

(C) Gettysburg

(D) St. Louis

15. What is the real name of the Confederate army?

(A) Lee's Lawmen

(B) The Army of Northern Virginia

(C) The Rough Riders

(D) The Army of the Potomac

16. Which ally of Chamberlain is shot during the Battle of Little Round Top?

(A) Tom Chamberlain

(B) Winfield Hancock

(C) John Hood

(D) Buster Kilrain

17. What job did Joshua L. Chamberlain hold before the war?

(A) He was a farmer

(B) He was an insurance salesman

(C) He was a blacksmith

(D) He was a college professor

18. What type of military strategy does James Longstreet endorse?

(A) Pickett's Charge

(B) He wants to attack the Union on both flanks

(C) He wants to swing around behind the Union army and block them off from Washington, D.C.

(D) He wants to attack in the middle of the night and surprise the Union forces

19. Union general Winfield Hancock is friends with which Confederate general?

(A) James Longstreet

(B) George Pickett

(C) Lew Armistead

(D) John Hood

20. What is the name of Chamberlain's regiment?

(A) The Third Maine

(B) The Forty-Fourth New York

(C) The Twentieth Maine

(D) The Forty-Ninth San Francisco

21. In what state is Gettysburg?

(A) Virginia

(B) West Virginia

(C) North Carolina

(D) Pennsylvania

22. What high ground does Chamberlain's regiment have to protect?

(A) Culp's Hill

(B) Little Round Top

(C) Seminary Ridge

(D) Cemetery Hill

23. What is cavalry?

(A) Soldiers who fight on foot

(B) Soldiers who fight on horses

(C) Soldiers who build bridges to cross rivers

(D) Men who entertain the troops

24. What is the name of the Englishman observing the Confederate army?

(A) Arthur Fremantle

(B) Ichabod Crane

(C) Sorrel

(D) Taylor

25. Pickett's Charge was not actually planned by Pickett. Whose idea was the charge?

(A) General John Reynolds

(B) General James Longstreet

(C) General Lew Armistead

(D) General Robert E. Lee