"How Few Remain"

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1. Frederick Douglass has a speaking engagement in St Louis. Which famous character does he have a short conversation with at the end of his speech? Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Grant Theodore Roosevelt James Longstreet

2. The looting of which US mining town persuaded Apache chief Geronimo to join Jeb Stuart in the war out west? Answer: (Two Words - Place of Happiness?)

3. Samuel Clemens wrote for the "Alto Californian" newspaper True False

4. Alfred von Schlieffen was part of the German attaché to the USA. Who was his French counterpart, a fellow Franco-Prussian war veteran? Answer: (One Word - surname only.)

5. Whilst Schlieffen was watching his French and British counterparts being expelled from Washington, we see a character from the Great War trilogy and the American Empire trilogy for the first time in a brief aside. She is almost knocked down by Schlieffen's horse. Who is she? Sylvia Enos Nellie Jacobs Anne Collerton Edna Grimes

6. Where is Colonel Virgil Earp captured? Kentucky Tennessee Sonora New Mexico

7. Abraham Lincoln is trapped in Utah for the majority of the war. However, President Blaine doesn't want him there and gives him a choice to go either north Idaho, or south to New Mexico. Alexander Pope and Gerorge Custer bet on the outcome of Lincoln's choice. Pope wins the bet because Lincoln elects to travel in which direction? Answer: (One Word (North or South))

8. Future US Socialist President Hosea Blackford and Abraham Lincoln had a conversation on the train which Blackford says was the turning point in his life. Where was Blackford living at the time? Oriska Bismarck Fargo St Paul

9. The Gatling Guns helped drive the British from Montana back into Canada. Which character didn't make it out alive from that battle? Karl Jobst George Custer Tom Custer Theodore Roosevelt

10. One of the Confederates also dies in the book - which one? Jeb Stuart Stonewall Jackson James Longstreet Judah Benjamin