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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 aspect of the landscape does the eyewitness from the Kilgore, Texas regiment comment on?
(a) Shifting desert sands.
(b) Muddy river banks.
(c) Lush, green jungles.
(d) Sharp, brown grass.

2. What killed 110 million people?
(a) The drought that destroyed the food supplies.
(b) The huge tsunami that hit the coast.
(c) The bombings in South Carolina.
(d) The Reunification Plague.

3. What did the narrator collect when he was young?
(a) Model cars.
(b) Postcards.
(c) Marbles.
(d) Baseball cards.

4. What emblem is on the flag of the United Rebels?
(a) A rattlesnake.
(b) A gas pump.
(c) A blue bird.
(d) A pecan tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does the narrator live in?

2. How was Sarat's father killed?

3. How many passengers were allowed to board the bus when it stopped after picking up the Chestnuts?

4. What is the term used to define the generation the narrator was born into?

5. Where did the name Sarat come from?

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