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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters Eight through Thirteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some of Samuel's slaves offer to help Uther Botkin's slave with?
(a) The winter planting.
(b) The fall planting.
(c) The spring planting.
(d) The summer planting.

2. While at the military institute listening to a speech, what does Samuel Gatewood's son see happen to a Union flagpole?
(a) It breaks, sending the flag crashing to the ground.
(b) It is waved around while everyone cheers.
(c) The pole is set on fire and the flag is burned.
(d) It is torn down.

3. What does Catesby agree to on his final bet?
(a) To join the Confederate Army.
(b) To join the Northern Army.
(c) To marry his girlfriend.
(d) To run naked down the street.

4. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife wish she had done before she was sentenced to jail?
(a) Put up more of a fight.
(b) Killed herself.
(c) Pleaded for mercy.
(d) Ran away.

5. Where is the penitentiary that Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife are being sent to?
(a) Williamsburg.
(b) Lexington.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Charlottesville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two years after the big storm, what is Samuel's son guarding in Part I, Chapter 2?

2. Miss Marguerite begins telling the traveling young woman in Part I, Chapter 1 a story. When does the story take place?

3. How many years does the judge sentence Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to serve in jail?

4. After traveling to where the slaves are held, with whom does Silas's nephew have sex?

5. How old is Uther Botkin?

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