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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food delicacy does Gaines give to Sarat on her first visit with him?
(a) Toast with real honey.
(b) Chocolate and marshmallows.
(c) Eggs with bacon.
(d) Caviar and champagne.

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

3. On what date did the Free Southern States declare their independence?
(a) October 1, 2074.
(b) January 1, 2025.
(c) December 25, 2060.
(d) May 11, 2050.

4. What weather event happened two days before the massacre?
(a) A freak blizzard.
(b) A summer tornado.
(c) A violent sandstorm.
(d) A heavy rainstorm.

5. How does Albert Gaines react when Sarat says she wants to kill the people who perpetrated the massacre?
(a) He smiles at her.
(b) He questions her.
(c) He makes fun of her.
(d) He is angry at her.

6. What is the narrator dying from?
(a) Kidney Failure.
(b) Blood Poisoning.
(c) Heart Disease.
(d) Cancer.

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

8. What is the narrator's lifelong career?
(a) Bounty-hunter for war criminals.
(b) Maker of Reproduction 2nd Civil War weapons.
(c) Doctor for elderly Civil War victims.
(d) Historian of America's Second Civil War.

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

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

11. What piece of equipment had Simon sawed in half?
(a) A ladder.
(b) A wheelbarrow.
(c) A shovel handle.
(d) A workbench.

12. How was Sarat's father killed?
(a) In a bombing of a Federal buildiing.
(b) In a car wreck.
(c) When a Bird crashed into their house.
(d) When his boat sank.

13. How many passengers were allowed to board the bus when it stopped after picking up the Chestnuts?
(a) 85.
(b) 40.
(c) 72.
(d) 56.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the refugee camp laid out?

2. Which of the following items is NOT a gift that Gaines gave to Sarat?

3. What color is associated with the Free Southerners?

4. What was Gerry Tusk's occupation before he moved to the Bouazizi Empire?

5. Sarat was comforted by Marcus, in part, because of which of his physical characteristics?

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