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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Chestnut children call Eliza Polk?
(a) Santa Muerte.
(b) Ave Maria.
(c) Wicked Witch.
(d) Santa Claus.

2. When the story opens, what is Sarat doing?
(a) Cooking bacon and eggs for breakfast.
(b) Setting fire to the brush pile in the backyard.
(c) Pouring honey into the knotholes in the floor of their house.
(d) Taking a mud-bath in the river.

3. What is the color associated with the border states that are often sympathetic to the south?
(a) Red.
(b) Purple.
(c) Blue.
(d) Orange.

4. What section of the camp does Albert Gaines ask Sarat to deliver a message to?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

5. What year was the war settled?
(a) 2065.
(b) 2100.
(c) 2095.
(d) 2078.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the humanitarian organization that runs the refugee camp?

2. Where was Sarat's father born?

3. What aspect of the landscape does the eyewitness from the Kilgore, Texas regiment comment on?

4. Where did the name Sarat come from?

5. What is the narrator dying from?

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