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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What supply is in over-abundance at the refugee camp?
(a) Pillows.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Soap.
(d) Coffee.

3. What is an UOD?
(a) An Unidentified Obscure Danger.
(b) An Unintentional Oil Drop.
(c) An Un-Oriented Drone.
(d) An Uninvited Obscene Dancer.

4. Where was Sarat's father born?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Canada.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Spain.

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

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

7. What kind of structure are the Chestnuts assigned to live in when they arrive at the refugee camp?
(a) A tent.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A dormitory.
(d) A houseboat.

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

9. What activity does Sarat do throughout the day?
(a) She is a volunteer at the infirmary.
(b) She works in the Alabama camp cafe.
(c) She watches the men de-mining the Northern end of camp.
(d) She swims in the Emerald Creek.

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

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

12. When the narrator talks about "Birds," to what is he referring?
(a) Remote-controlled weapons of war that flew overhead, spying on and killing the enemy.
(b) Secret hand signals that indicated participation in the Southern resistance.
(c) Large carrion raptors that came to the battlefields after a battle.
(d) Northern Red Cross dirigibles.

13. What does Martina do at the camp to earn money?
(a) She does laundry for the refugees.
(b) She cooks meals for the soldiers.
(c) She does hairstyles and make-overs.
(d) She writes letters for other people.

14. What did the Chestnut children call Eliza Polk?
(a) Ave Maria.
(b) Santa Claus.
(c) Santa Muerte.
(d) Wicked Witch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the story opens, what is Sarat doing?

2. How much money does the Chestnut family receive from the War Office for Martina's death?

3. What kind of statue sits near the front door to Sarat's house?

4. What aspect of the landscape does the eyewitness from the Kilgore, Texas regiment comment on?

5. How old was the narrator when he arrived in neutral territory?

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