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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Alexander is sent to deliver a message to a particular group about to be hemmed in during the fighting in Part III, Chapter 28?
(a) He delivers the message and returns safely.
(b) He falls into a bramble thicket and runs away.
(c) He trips and falls down a hill, breaking his leg.
(d) He is shot.

2. How does Silas describe the conditions in the Confederate Army?
(a) Okay.
(b) Excellent.
(c) Deplorable.
(d) Sad.

3. How old is Uther Botkin?
(a) Sixty-five.
(b) Eighty-five.
(c) Fifty-five.
(d) Seventy-five.

4. What does Catesby's daughter say her mother spends her time doing now that her father is dead?
(a) Singing.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Praying and crying.

5. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter 37, who are washing the corpse of Uther Botkin?
(a) Martha and Jacob.
(b) Susie and Jack.
(c) Anna and Jesse.
(d) Opal and Franky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives at the hospital to visit Duncan and apologizes for his melancholy attitude?

2. Why does Samuel Gatewood want his slave to be married?

3. After traveling to where the slaves are held, with whom does Silas's nephew have sex?

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

5. What does a Confederate solider tell Rufus and Jesse before shooting Rufus in the chest?

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