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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Yuxis?
(a) Sarat Chestnut's favorite kind of cookie.
(b) The unfiltered cigarettes Benjamin Chestnut smoked.
(c) The type of jeans that Simon wore.
(d) A plant the Chestnuts ground up to feed their chickens.

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

3. How old was the narrator when he arrived in neutral territory?
(a) Eleven years old.
(b) Fifteen years old.
(c) Five years old.
(d) Six years old.

4. What kind of pet do Sarat and Marcus keep in an abandoned tent?
(a) A turtle.
(b) A cat.
(c) A snake.
(d) A dog.

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

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

7. What is the term used to define the generation the narrator was born into?
(a) The Miraculous Generation.
(b) The Lost Children.
(c) The Lucky Ones.
(d) The Warrior Clan.

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

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

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

11. What does Sarat do to her hair after she goes into Emerald Creek?
(a) She pulls it down over her eyes to avoid people looking at her.
(b) She dyes it bright green.
(c) She braids it into dreadlocks.
(d) She shaves it all off.

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

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

14. What section of the camp does Albert Gaines ask Sarat to deliver a message to?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Texas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Alabama.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many passengers were allowed to board the bus when it stopped after picking up the Chestnuts?

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

3. How is the refugee camp laid out?

4. Who escaped from the camp right before the massacre occurred?

5. How do the Chestnuts get across the river when they leave their home?

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