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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 does Marguerite demand from the bank after she notices Silas's invoices were not filed correctly?
(a) That they convert his assess to silver currency instead of Confederate money.
(b) That they file Silas's invoices correctly.
(c) That they pay her back with interest.
(d) That they convert his assets to gold currency instead of Confederate money or cotton pledges.

2. What is the name of Uther Botkin's daughter?
(a) Susie.
(b) Sara.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Sammy.

3. What does Silas warn Marguerite about before he leaves to become a solider in the Confederate Army?
(a) About where she will run if Lexington falls to the Union.
(b) About where she will run if Wilmington falls to the Union.
(c) About where she will run if Richmond falls to the Union.
(d) About where she will run if Charleston falls to the Union.

4. Why is the person that Uther Botkin's slave wishes could help her with the planting in jail?
(a) He tried to run away.
(b) He stole some food.
(c) He beat someone up.
(d) He killed someone.

5. What does Marguerite tell her remaining servant after the other servant leaves them on the road in Part IV, Chapter 62?
(a) That it's not worth crying over a man like Manny.
(b) That it's not worth crying over a man like Mingo.
(c) That it's not worth crying over a woman like Karla.
(d) That it's not worth crying over a woman like Kizzy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?

2. How is Catesby killed in battle?

3. 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?

4. What do some of Samuel's slaves offer to help Uther Botkin's slave with?

5. While awaiting the arrival of his ship, why has Silas begun to be angry about Marguerite?

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