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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters Thirty-Seven through Forty-Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Samuel Gatewood want his slave to be married?
(a) She is pregnant with his son's child.
(b) She is too wild and needs to settle down.
(c) She is pregnant with his child.
(d) She is pregnant with another slave's child.

2. What happens to Duncan and Catesby during the fighting in Part III, Chapter 28?
(a) They run away.
(b) They are taken as prisoner.
(c) They survive and watch helplessly as wounded men die in the fields.
(d) They are both badly wounded.

3. Why does Alexander demand that he be treated as a prisoner of war while in prison?
(a) Because he is an abolitionist.
(b) Because he sides with the North.
(c) Because he sides with the Confederate Army.
(d) Because he owns slaves.

4. What is supposed to arrive via rail the day of the holiday in Part III, Chapter 42, which has the men so excited?
(a) Water.
(b) Women.
(c) Food.
(d) Clothes.

5. As the story opens, what is the young woman traveling the countryside in search of?
(a) Those who remember the days of slavery.
(b) Those who remember her great-grandfather.
(c) Those who remember her great-grandmother.
(d) Those who remember the days of the Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the house that Silas arrives at where there is prostitution and evening entertainment?

2. Whom does Samuel Gatewood purchase from Uther Botkin?

3. How many months after Uther Botkin's wife gives birth does she die?

4. What do Jesse's men call Abraham Lincoln?

5. What does a Confederate solider tell Rufus and Jesse before shooting Rufus in the chest?

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