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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. Whom does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife hesitate to visit but eventually goes to see in Part III, Chapter 39?
(a) Alexander.
(b) Duncan.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Jesse.

2. At the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 51, what are Abigail and Opal planting at the plantation?
(a) Corn.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Peas.

3. As the story opens, what is the young woman traveling the countryside in search of?
(a) Those who remember the days of the Civil War.
(b) Those who remember the days of slavery.
(c) Those who remember her great-grandfather.
(d) Those who remember her great-grandmother.

4. What happens to Duncan's horse during a battle in Chancellorsville, Virginia?
(a) Her throat is slit.
(b) She is slashed and her intestines spill out onto the ground.
(c) She stumbles and breaks her leg.
(d) She is shot in the stomach several times.

5. What does the young Danzinger boy ask Alexander to do for him after it becomes evident the renegades are going to kill him?
(a) He asks him to tell his family that he loves them and that his younger brother will have to take over as man of the house.
(b) He asks him to please find his father and tell him to go home.
(c) He asks him to tell his sweetheart, Ally, that he loves her.
(d) He asks him please to watch over his family for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the surgeon in Part III, Chapter 28, insist that all the Union soldiers be taken to another surgeon for the rest of the evening?

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

3. What does Catesby and a fellow soldier do when a Union soldier stumbles into their camp?

4. What are Jesse and a group of black men, mostly former slaves, building in Washington?

5. What happens to the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?

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