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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of home does Sarat live in?
(a) Sarat lives in a cave along the riverbank.
(b) Sarat lives in a dilapidated, two-story wooden farmhouse.
(c) Sarat lives in a corrugated steel container salvaged from the shipyard.
(d) Sarat lives on a rusty old houseboat.

2. Where is the capital of the Federal government?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Austin, Texas.
(c) Columbus, Ohio.
(d) Savannah, Georgia.

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

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

5. What was Gerry Tusk's occupation before he moved to the Bouazizi Empire?
(a) He was an archeologist.
(b) He was an ornthologist.
(c) He was a virologist.
(d) He was an orator.

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

7. Which of the following professions is NOT considered "blood work"?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Butcher.
(d) Surgeon.

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

9. What nickname do the South Carolinians give to Sarat?
(a) Giant.
(b) Baldie.
(c) Payday.
(d) Stinky.

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

11. What was the name of the rebel South's first martyr?
(a) Julia Templestowe.
(b) Andrew Polinsky.
(c) Jack Stonewall.
(d) Anita Redman.

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

13. What is a Sea-Tok?
(a) A car that steers like a boat.
(b) A bicycle equipped to go in the water.
(c) A small horse trained to carry riders through water.
(d) A boat that uses solar-fed motors.

14. How much does it cost for the Chestnuts to board the bus for the refugee camp?
(a) $2000 per family.
(b) $100 per person.
(c) $500 per family.
(d) $1000 per person.

15. How many people were estimated to be killed in the war?
(a) Two million.
(b) Eleven million.
(c) Twenty million.
(d) Nine hundred thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dana call Sarat before Dana gets on the bus that takes the survivors away from the camp?

2. When Martina arrives at the refugee camp, she is told to claim a certain town as her hometown. What is the name of that town?

3. What was the symbol of the group Simon joined?

4. What state had refugees who wanted to live permanently at the camp?

5. What is the name of the refugee camp where the Chestnuts are sent?

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