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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters 1-4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who were the Blue Badges?
(a) Northern men who acted as a police force.
(b) Southern men who started working for the North.
(c) Southern women workers who had blue eyes.
(d) Northern women who went on forages to Alaska.

3. What does the narrator say the story is about?
(a) Loss.
(b) Love.
(c) Ruin.
(d) War.

4. What was one of the main causes for the start of the Second Civil War?
(a) The South enraged the North by continuing to use slaves.
(b) The border states created their own currency.
(c) The Blue Badges arrested 600 southerners.
(d) The Federal government shot 59 Southern protestors.

5. What happened to Eliza Polk's family?
(a) They ran away to the North.
(b) They were killed fighting for the South.
(c) They went to prison for stealing food.
(d) They were buried alive for using fossil fuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of structure are the Chestnuts assigned to live in when they arrive at the refugee camp?

2. When the narrator talks about "Birds," to what is he referring?

3. Where did the name Sarat come from?

4. What is a Sea-Tok?

5. What food does Martina eat that came out of a ration kit?

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