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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the refugee camp laid out?
(a) In the shape of a pentagon with each of five states occupying a border.
(b) In the shape of a square with four squares inside.
(c) In the shape of a circle with quarter slices.
(d) In the shape of a triangle with three distinct regions.

2. What item did Simon steal from an abandoned studio?
(a) A new aluminum easel.
(b) An old black guitar case.
(c) A book of sheet music.
(d) A set of old paintbrushes.

3. What do the women in the refugee camp call their homemade liquor?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Killer.
(c) Crazy.
(d) Tear-jerker.

4. Where did the name Sarat come from?
(a) An Egyptian queen character in a novel her mother was reading.
(b) A kindergarten teacher who accidentally read her middle initial as the last letter of her first name.
(c) A town in southern Georgia where she was born.
(d) An elderly aunt who had a speech impediment.

5. Where did the Chestnut family hide their valuables?
(a) Under a loose floorboard of their house.
(b) Beneath the rotted out stump in their backyard.
(c) In a drainpipe off the roof of their house.
(d) In an old metal can tied to a string and floating in the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does the narrator live in?

2. How does Sarat hide her presence from the Northern soldier when she goes out to see what is happening?

3. How do Gaines and Joe know each other?

4. Where is the capital of the Federal government?

5. What was it considered a crime to use?

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