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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters Twenty-Eight through Thirty-Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Thirty.

3. What is Jesse doing that causes most men to fall ill or to move on to another job as quickly as possible?
(a) Burning dead bodies.
(b) Taking the clothing off dead bodies.
(c) Cleaning out the cesspools around the hospitals.
(d) Burying dead bodies.

4. 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 Confederate Army.
(c) Because he owns slaves.
(d) Because he sides with the North.

5. What are most of the people at the gathering at the governor's mansion?
(a) Blockade runners.
(b) Bar owners.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Plantation owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. After attending church in Part I, Chapter 9, who begs Jack to put in a good word with Samuel Gatewood?

2. What is the name of the camp that Catesby sends his wife a letter from in Part II, Chapter 14?

3. What property does Samuel Gatewood own?

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

5. Whom does Samuel Gatewood have help Uther Botkin's family after the death of his wife?

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