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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ran away.
(d) Pleaded for mercy.

2. What is the name of the surgeon who receives a telegram that makes him cry?
(a) Jared Lock.
(b) Jack Laurence.
(c) John Lavell.
(d) James Lane.

3. What are woman like Marguerite known as at the governor's party?
(a) Whores.
(b) Non-wives.
(c) Outside wives.
(d) Friendly companions.

4. What does a recruiter for the army say to Jesse and the men working alongside him in Washington that they do not care for?
(a) That they must join the army or starve to death.
(b) That they should join the army or become slaves again.
(c) That they should join the army for vengeance against the Confederates.
(d) That they are not good enough to join the army, but they will take them anyway.

5. Who arrives at the hospital to visit Duncan and apologizes for his melancholy attitude?
(a) Uther.
(b) Opal.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Samuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What property does Samuel Gatewood own?

2. How much money is the slave that Silas's nephew had sex with being sold for?

3. What is the name of the horse that Duncan has had since he was a child?

4. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter 37, who are washing the corpse of Uther Botkin?

5. Why does a judge sentence Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to jail?

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