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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters Fourteen through Twenty-Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Uther Botkin's wife?
(a) Midge.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Martha.
(d) Marge.

2. Miss Marguerite begins telling the traveling young woman in Part I, Chapter 1 a story. Where does the story take place?
(a) O'Hara Plantation in Mississippi.
(b) Mumford Plantation in North Carolina.
(c) Stratford Plantation in Virginia.
(d) Gatewood Plantation in South Carolina.

3. How does Silas react after learning that his nephew had sex with a slave?
(a) He yells at him and tells him to leave.
(b) He does not mind at all.
(c) He flips over his nephew's chair and dumps breakfast and coffee on him.
(d) He punches him.

4. Why does a judge sentence Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to jail?
(a) For killing someone.
(b) For the mistreatment of slaves.
(c) For stealing money.
(d) For being abolitionists.

5. Why is the person that Uther Botkin's slave wishes could help her with the planting in jail?
(a) He tried to run away.
(b) He stole some food.
(c) He killed someone.
(d) He beat someone up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catesby agree to on his final bet?

2. Catesby plays cards with Samuel Gatewood's son and some other young men. What does he lose?

3. What is the name of Catesby Byrd's wife?

4. What must Alexander Kirkpatrick do if he wants to be pardoned from serving jail?

5. After dumping piles of used bandages into a pit, how many patients does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife tell the surgeon he has waiting for the day?

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