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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sarat and Marcus swim across the water to the rebel camp, what do they find stored in crates?
(a) Chemical weapons.
(b) Land mines.
(c) Millions of Northern dollars.
(d) Large guns.

2. How old does a child have to be for the vaccine against paralysis to work?
(a) Between 15 and 21 years of age.
(b) Between 8 and 14 years of age.
(c) Over the age of five.
(d) Under the age of five.

3. What year was the war settled?
(a) 2065.
(b) 2095.
(c) 2078.
(d) 2100.

4. How does Sarat hide her presence from the Northern soldier when she goes out to see what is happening?
(a) Sarat hides by disguising herself as a Northern soldier wearing black.
(b) Sarat hides by burrowing underneath the dead bodies of the Virginia Cavaliers.
(c) Sarat hides by jumping into Emerald Creek.
(d) Sarat hides by running to the water and going under.

5. What does Sarat do for Sabrina when she finds her beaten, raped, and left for dead in a tent?
(a) Sarat covers her with a white sheet and weeps.
(b) Sarat screams and runs after the soldier who killed Sabrina.
(c) Sarat faints.
(d) Sarat holds her hand until she dies.

6. What was the symbol of the group Simon joined?
(a) A knife engraved with the letter S.
(b) A hammer wrapped with barbed wire.
(c) A horseshoe held aloft with a sword.
(d) A bullet pierced with a nail.

7. What event caused the Northern soldiers to attack Camp Patience?
(a) The loss of electricity to the North because the refugees cut the power lines.
(b) The theft of the Northern army's main food source by rebel forces.
(c) The destruction of the Northern army's railroad lines by Sarat's girls.
(d) The killing of their general by underground mines placed by the Virginia Cavaliers.

8. What color is associated with the Free Southerners?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

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

10. How do Gaines and Joe know each other?
(a) They were both union leaders.
(b) They both served on the Board of Education.
(c) They went to medical school together.
(d) They were soldiers together when they were young.

11. What state does the narrator live in?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Texas.
(d) South Carolina.

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

13. What does Dana call Sarat before Dana gets on the bus that takes the survivors away from the camp?
(a) Strong sister.
(b) Beautiful girl.
(c) Awesome warrior.
(d) Champion of the South.

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

15. Which of the following items is NOT a gift that Gaines gave to Sarat?
(a) A gun.
(b) A knife.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the main causes for the start of the Second Civil War?

2. Which of the following professions is NOT considered "blood work"?

3. What rebel group did Simon join?

4. What did the narrator collect when he was young?

5. What was the name of the rebel South's first martyr?

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