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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters Eight through Thirteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the essay that Samuel Gatewood writes in Part I, Chapter 13?
(a) Remarks by a Plantation Owner.
(b) Remarks by a Southern Abolitionist.
(c) Remarks by a Slave Trader.
(d) Remarks by a Mountain Agriculturalist.

2. While at the military institute listening to a speech, what does Samuel Gatewood's son see happen to a Union flagpole?
(a) It is torn down.
(b) It is waved around while everyone cheers.
(c) It breaks, sending the flag crashing to the ground.
(d) The pole is set on fire and the flag is burned.

3. Whom does Uther Botkin's slave wish could help her with the planting, but can't because he is in jail?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Jack.

4. After traveling to where the slaves are held, with whom does Silas's nephew have sex?
(a) Sallie.
(b) Opal.
(c) Martha.
(d) Maggie.

5. What is the name of Uther Botkin's daughter?
(a) Sara.
(b) Susie.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Sammy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Silas react after learning that his nephew had sex with a slave?

2. How many months after Uther Botkin's wife gives birth does she die?

3. What is the name of Samuel Gatewood's wife?

4. How much money is the slave that Silas's nephew had sex with being sold for?

5. Why is the person that Uther Botkin's slave wishes could help her with the planting in jail?

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