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

2. 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 please to watch over his family for him.
(b) He asks him to please find his father and tell him to go home.
(c) 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.
(d) He asks him to tell his sweetheart, Ally, that he loves her.

3. How old is the newspaper that Jesse reads to his men about the Gettysburg Address?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Four days.
(c) Two days.
(d) One week.

4. What do Samuel Gatewood's son and his friends do after some Union cadets rush them after listening to a speech at the military institute?
(a) They run and hide.
(b) They beg for forgiveness.
(c) The immediately begin fighting back.
(d) They gather their weapons and return to regain their honor.

5. What does Catesby and a fellow soldier do when a Union soldier stumbles into their camp?
(a) They tell the boy to return the way he came.
(b) They kill him.
(c) They fight him and he runs off.
(d) They take him as a prisoner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Samuel Gatewood's slave trying to run away?

3. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife tell a young solider who asks if he is going to die?

4. What is Alexander quickly set up as in his new regiment because of his education and ability?

5. How does Silas react after learning that his nephew had sex with a slave?

(see the answer key)

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