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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Joseph Weiland, Jr. assume with a year of his father's death?
(a) Secretary of State of the Northern Alliance.
(b) Head of the Committee for Reunification.
(c) Director of the War Office.
(d) Vice-President of the North.

2. Who does Sarat assassinate at Halfway Branch?
(a) Julia Templestowe.
(b) Albert Gaines.
(c) General Joseph Weiland.
(d) Daniel Ki.

3. What does Benjamin find in the storm shelter?
(a) A treasure chest.
(b) Bags of money.
(c) Sarat's diaries.
(d) A Virgin of Guadalupe Statue.

4. What does the Widow Bentley ask Karina to do?
(a) Bake them some special cookies.
(b) Keep their money near Simon.
(c) Make them new mourning dresses.
(d) Feed their cat.

5. What are the numbers that are on the bottom of the letter from Sarat?
(a) A phone number.
(b) Coordinates for a location.
(c) A combination for a safe.
(d) A code for a safe deposit box.

6. What does Sarat do to the Last Salt Lake Boy?
(a) She holds him hostage for ransom.
(b) She releases him to the North.
(c) She forgives him.
(d) She kills him.

7. What does Sarat's informant ask her to do?
(a) To hand over her extra supplies to him.
(b) To run away with him.
(c) To pay him $100 dollars.
(d) To lay low for a little while.

8. What stands on the outskirts of Atlanta?
(a) Trenches dug to keep people out.
(b) A six-lane asphalted highway.
(c) Towering slum buildings.
(d) A ring of military tanks.

9. Who does Joe work for?
(a) The Bouazizi Empire.
(b) The Purple Region.
(c) The United Rebels.
(d) Free Southern States.

10. What happens to Lake Sinclair?
(a) It is flooded by a storm.
(b) It catches fire.
(c) It sinks into the ground after an earthquake.
(d) It is bombed by a flock of erratic Birds.

11. In addition to donations, how have the Chestnuts become wealthy?
(a) Joe provided them with large monthly salaries.
(b) Karina acted like a bank as caretaker of people's money.
(c) No one knows; it is not explained.
(d) Simon got millions in a disability claim.

12. What happens to Benjamin in the spring of '95?
(a) He learns to read.
(b) He breaks his arm.
(c) He buys his first gun.
(d) He gets polio.

13. What is the name of the painkillers that Sarat gives to Benjamin?
(a) Agony killers.
(b) Bonesetters.
(c) Stab stingers.
(d) Buzz Feeders.

14. Why have the Chestnuts built the levee?
(a) Because the river would flood the greenhouses.
(b) Because the Northern guard tower could see them if the levee didn't exist.
(c) Because they were afraid that Benjamin would escape.
(d) Because they did not like the sight of the river.

15. What fictional event does the diary of a former Southern recruiter use to convince volunteers of the wrongs of the North?
(a) The shooting of President Daniel Ki.
(b) The blockade of old Atlanta.
(c) The slaughter at Pleasant Ridge.
(d) The theft of the Southern Treasury.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Benjamin delivers breakfast to Sarat the morning after she arrives, what does she tell him?

2. What is Joe's real name?

3. Who does the last Salt Lake Boy, Trough, eventually become?

4. When Joe comes to visit Sarat in her new home after the massacre, what gift does he bring her?

5. What do people call Simon?

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