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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Benjamin get on his 18th birthday?
(a) A new car.
(b) A letter from Sarat.
(c) A fishing pole.
(d) A bottle of champagne.

2. In addition to donations, how have the Chestnuts become wealthy?
(a) Simon got millions in a disability claim.
(b) Karina acted like a bank as caretaker of people's money.
(c) No one knows; it is not explained.
(d) Joe provided them with large monthly salaries.

3. What does Joe offer to give to Sarat?
(a) A military jeep.
(b) 1,000 land mines.
(c) A chemical weapon.
(d) A crate of high-quality rifles.

4. What is the first line and the last line of Sarat's story?
(a) I wish we could go backward.
(b) The South will rise again.
(c) It was the end of an era.
(d) I was happy then.

5. Who is the person that causes the apocalypse?
(a) Bragg.
(b) Sarat.
(c) Simon.
(d) Gaines.

6. What is Joe's real name?
(a) Noah Van Bitte.
(b) Yousef Bin Rashid.
(c) Ibid Amin.
(d) Jeremiah Jones.

7. How has Sarat's physical appearance NOT changed when is released from prison and returns to the Chestnut home?
(a) She looks older.
(b) She has gotten fat.
(c) She is tall.
(d) Her nose has been flattened.

8. Why does Attic, one of the Salt Lake Boys, say he is fighting for the South?
(a) Because the North burns his home.
(b) Because he loves the South and its people.
(c) Because he wants to be something.
(d) Because he is paid a mercenary salary.

9. What hobby is Karina passionate about?
(a) Growing things.
(b) Sewing beautiful garments.
(c) Cooking haute cuisine.
(d) Playing piano.

10. Who is the President of the South?
(a) President Templestowe.
(b) President Ki.
(c) President Weiland.
(d) President Kershaw.

11. Who does Sarat assassinate at Halfway Branch?
(a) General Joseph Weiland.
(b) Albert Gaines.
(c) Daniel Ki.
(d) Julia Templestowe.

12. What do people call Simon?
(a) The Man-Child.
(b) The Miracle Boy.
(c) The Sole Survivor.
(d) The Lone Wolf.

13. Who does Simon Chestnut marry?
(a) Karina Chowdhury.
(b) Dana's best friend.
(c) Layla, Jr.
(d) Andrea Bragg.

14. Who does the interrogator at the camp tell Sarat turned her in?
(a) Bud Baker.
(b) Adam Bragg.
(c) Marcus Exum.
(d) Albert Gaines.

15. What happens to Benjamin in the spring of '95?
(a) He learns to read.
(b) He breaks his arm.
(c) He gets polio.
(d) He buys his first gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joe do when he fought with Gaines in the previous war during the Russian expansion and the creation of the Bouazizi Empire?

2. Who is President of the South?

3. What is flying steak?

4. What is the name of the painkillers that Sarat gives to Benjamin?

5. What is the name of Sarat's lover?

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