POP QUIZ (CIVIL WAR)

                    This year is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, and this quiz focuses on that flash point, Fort Sumter.
1. In what state is Fort Sumter National Monument ?
    a) Virginia.
    b) North Carolina.
    c) South Carolina.
    d) Georgia.
2. Who fired the first shots of the Civil War?
    a) federal troops inside the fort.
    b) Confederates in the nearby harbor.
3. Who was the commander of the fort when the war started?
    a) William T. Sherman.
    b) Robert Anderson.
    c) Ulysses S. Grant.
    d) Ambrose Burnside.
4. Coincidentally, at West Point in the 1830s, the fort's commander had been the artillery instructor of the Confederate general whose troops opened fire.  Name the Southern general.
    a) Pierre G.T.Beauregard.
    b) James Longstreet.
    c) Braxton Bragg.
    d) Joseph E. Johnston.
5.  The first Union shot was fired by Capt. Abner Doubleday, later erroneously given credit for inventing baseball.
    a) True.
    b) False.
6. How long did the Confederate attack on the fort last before the besieged Union soldiers surrendered?
    a) 6 hours.
    b) 13 hours
    c) 24 hours.
    d) 34 hours.
7. The first Civil War death occurred on April 14.  How did Pvt. Daniel Hough die?
   a) Buried under rubble during the bombardment of the fort.
   b) Killed when a cannon prematurely fired during the final salute to the U.S. flag before surrender.
   c) Drowned when a boat capsized as troops were transported from fort to shore.
   d) Shot while trying to escape after surrender.
8. What happened to the Union soldiers after the surrender?
   a) Sent to POW camps.
   b) Forced to swear allegiance to Confederacy.
   c) Transported to a federal fleet that President Abraham Lincolon had sent to resupply Sumter.
   d) Tried in military tribunals.
9. Sumter would be taken and retaken several times during the war.
   a) True.
   b) False.
10. Four years to the day later, the same U.S. flag lowered on the day of the surrender was raised again over Sumter.  Who had the honor?
   a) William T. Sherman.
   b) Robert Anderson.
   c) Ulysses S. Grant.
   d) Ambrose Burnside.


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Answers: 1. c  ; 2. b  ; 3. b  ; 4. a  ; 5. a  ; 6. d  ; 7. b  ; 8. c  ; 9. b  ; 10. b