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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapters Fifty-Nine through Seventy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catesby and a fellow soldier do when a Union soldier stumbles into their camp?
(a) They fight him and he runs off.
(b) They kill him.
(c) They tell the boy to return the way he came.
(d) They take him as a prisoner.

2. After dumping piles of used bandages into a pit, how many patients does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife tell the surgeon he has waiting for the day?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty.

3. What is the name of Duncan's childhood servant who used to light the fire in his room?
(a) Parley.
(b) Peter.
(c) Parker.
(d) Pompey.

4. What does Marguerite demand from the bank after she notices Silas's invoices were not filed correctly?
(a) That they pay her back with interest.
(b) That they convert his assets to gold currency instead of Confederate money or cotton pledges.
(c) That they file Silas's invoices correctly.
(d) That they convert his assess to silver currency instead of Confederate money.

5. Miss Marguerite begins telling the traveling young woman in Part I, Chapter 1 a story. When does the story take place?
(a) March 22, 1859.
(b) January 22, 1857.
(c) February 22, 1858.
(d) April 22, 1856.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jesse feel about giving his money to the surgeon, who says he will put it into a savings account?

2. Where are Jesse and his company assigned to work in Part IV, Chapter 52?

3. What does Duncan help Jesse do after they spend the night talking in an abandoned house?

4. As the story opens, what is the young woman traveling the countryside in search of?

5. By whom is the woman traveling the countryside in Part I, Chapter 1, employed?

(see the answer key)

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