That one bugged me too. I wanted to be all contemporary and woke and pick “slavery,” but I was in high school during the '70s and figured the “correct” answer was “state’s rights.”
41/62 Ouch…
Mostly the dates that threw me, and the one about what rations were not used, had not idea the answer was MILK. Condensed milk was invented before the war and had a lot of demand during. so I chose Coffee, since I had also read somewhere that Chicory was used as a substitute.
Meh, I’m taking it from what I learned almost two decades ago and what I learned from “Gone With The Wind” and “Glory”
If you had, you may have scored lower! 
42/62.
Not a fan of questions tailored towards rote learning. Don’t care, and never will, whether something was 1860 or 1861. Not a fan of date games like that.
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- Some pretty tough ones. Nice for a change that they aren’t easy, but “actual date” questions are really kind of meaningless trivia. Do I need to know the exact date S. Carolina seceded?
I missed the “West Point/ US Military academy” duality, but I did wonder about one question: you could buy your way out of the war by taking in two former “selves”. Did that only work with multiple personalities, or reincarnated folks? 
Did you all notice the carpetbagger question illustration had the word “carpetbagger” in it?
My wife went to HS in Tennessee. They didn’t talk about the Civil War AT ALL in school. She’d probably be lucky to get 20 on this quiz. She was just never exposed to any of this history.
52 out of 62. Literally laughed out loud with the one where the right answer was “carpetbagger” and the picture had a man with “carpetbagger” written on his carpetbag. :smack:
I’m not a fan of rote learning either. But knowing what year something occurred in can demonstrate the opposite of rote learning; it can show that you learned the context of events.
For example, I didn’t memorize the fact that the attack on Fort Sumter occurred on April 12, 1861. But I was able to identify that as the correct choice in the quiz because I knew Lincoln had been elected in 1860, that elections occur in November, that Presidents used to get inaugurated in the March following the election, and that the attack occurred in the early weeks of Lincoln’s Presidency.
- I missed a few dates. I owe it all to Ken Burns :).
41, but in my excuse, I’m a Mick.
For some reason, that quiz won’t work for me. I can see the page OK, but when I click an answer, nothing happens, and there’s nowhere to click to go to the next page.
It did that for me in Firefox. Worked reasonably well in Exploder. Only locked up once.
Oh good! That makes me feel better lol. Funny enough I got the question wrong asking which was NOT one of the original states to secede or whatever. Which was my home state of NC. I thought for sure they were part of the initial bunch.
47/62. It had a lot of trivia on it, and the one over-arching question (the cause of the war) was… carefully-worded, to the point of being possibly wrong.
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A lot of the questions were never covered in my history classes. We spent perhaps two weeks on the civil war. We hit the highlights. Not the minutiae this test expected.
You would need a full semester course on the Civil War to Ace this test. Imho
- Also, I know that slavery was the principal cause of the Civil War, not the principle cause, so two bonus points for me!
- A few I wanted to change on 2nd thought but was unable to do so.
I missed three – the “poet” question, percentage of the population killed, and I am ashamed to admit the list of abolitionists. In my defense I read it more as free people being against the practice rather than including slaves/escaped slaves themselves who clearly wouldn’t be for the idea.
I got 52 out of 62. I would have gotten 53 if I’d called U S Grant “The Butcher.”
That’s part of The Lost Cause legend. Sainted Bobby Lee had higher casualty rates.
Edited to add: Yes, there were Black Abolitionists. William Wells Brown was one who wrote an autobiography that helped later biographers looking for details about Joe, W B Travis’s slave & a survivor of he Alamo. William Wells Brown was his brother…
I got 57 out of 62 (=92%) and promoted to colonel.
I got bored with the quiz after 22 questions (seriously? One question per page, with two clicks and scrolling per question, and ads on every page?). Plus, an awful lot of the quiz was just silly trivia, not anything of substance (why does it even matter what play Lincoln was seeing when he got shot?).
That said, the question about “primary, though not only, cause of the war” is wrong: Slavery was, for all intents and purposes, the only cause. States’ Rights were only relevant in so far as the South rejected the right of states to ban slavery. The only other cause any of the Confederate states listed at all was tarrifs, and that was so far down in their priorities as to be basically irrelevant. Yes, I know that some schools have taught that the South was fighting for states’ rights. Those schools were wrong, and we should not be afraid to point out that they were wrong.