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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the narrator collect when he was young?
(a) Postcards.
(b) Marbles.
(c) Model cars.
(d) Baseball cards.

3. What state had refugees who wanted to live permanently at the camp?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Mississippi
(c) Alabama.
(d) Georgia.

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

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

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

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

8. Which of the following items was NOT included in the care package that Simon left for his family?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Cashews.
(c) Painkillers.
(d) Apricot gel.

9. What was it considered a crime to use?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Fossil fuels.
(c) Matches.
(d) Water.

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

11. Where does the South get its food, clothing, and necessities?
(a) From the ships coming in from foreign countries.
(b) From the suppliers on the internet.
(c) From the Black Market.
(d) From the raids on the border states.

12. What item did Simon steal from an abandoned studio?
(a) A book of sheet music.
(b) A new aluminum easel.
(c) An old black guitar case.
(d) A set of old paintbrushes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What section of the camp does Albert Gaines ask Sarat to deliver a message to?

2. What document is Sarat's father hoping to obtain?

3. What kind of clothes do the refugees wear to the service in the chapel?

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

5. What is Marcus Exum doing when Martina meets him?

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