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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. Who visits Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife in jail?
(a) Abigail's Cousin Molly.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Opal.
(d) Her friend Martha.

2. What is the name of Samuel Gatewood's other slave who is also planning to run away?
(a) Jack.
(b) Rufus.
(c) Junior.
(d) Reggie.

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

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

5. What does a Confederate solider tell Rufus and Jesse before shooting Rufus in the chest?
(a) That they are going to die.
(b) That Abraham Lincoln has made the Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) That he will be punished for running away.
(d) That he is lower than dirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Alexander after he demands to be treated as a prisoner of war while in prison?

2. What is the name of Uther Botkin's wife?

3. What does the visitor bring Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife while visiting her in jail?

4. After his essay in Part I, Chapter 13, whom does Samuel Gatewood try to convince to stop running away?

5. Where is the penitentiary that Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife are being sent to?

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