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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapters Forty-Four through Fifty-Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Duncan is somewhat annoyed by the Confederate President at the event. What does he ask him?
(a) Why the men are fed so much better in the hospital than on the field.
(b) When the fighting will stop.
(c) Why the men are clothed so much better in the hospital than on the field.
(d) Why the war had to happen.

2. 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-grandmother.
(c) Those who remember the days of the Civil War.
(d) Those who remember her great-grandfather.

3. Why is Samuel Gatewood's slave trying to run away?
(a) He is trying to find Sallie.
(b) He is trying to find Martha.
(c) He is trying to find Maggie.
(d) He is trying to find Rita.

4. Who accompanies Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to the jail after they are sentenced?
(a) The warden and his wife.
(b) Uther Botkin.
(c) Samuel Gatewood.
(d) Opal.

5. Catesby writes a letter to his wife in Part III, Chapter 32. What does he tell her has happened to Duncan?
(a) He has been severely injured and has brain damage.
(b) He has been severely injured and has lost an arm.
(c) He has been severely injured and has lost a foot.
(d) He has been severely injured and has lost a leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Uther Botkin's daughter?

2. To whom does Catesby want Samuel Gatewood to write a letter?

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

4. What does Catesby's daughter say her mother spends her time doing now that her father is dead?

5. At the hospital that she works at, Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife has to dump piles of used bandages into a pit. What else does she see inside the pit?

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