1. What are the names of Marguerite's servants, who were former slaves?
(a) Kizzy and Mingo.
(b) Kizzy and Martha.
(c) Karla and Mingo.
(d) Karla and Manny.

2. What are the names of Samuel Gatewood's children?
(a) Lana and Daniel.
(b) Layla and Donny.
(c) Laura and Denny.
(d) Leona and Duncan.

3. Where is Duncan staying at the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 60?
(a) Uther Botkin's place.
(b) A hospital in South Carolina.
(c) A military institution in Virginia.
(d) Stratford Plantation.

4. What does Jesse say that the "colored troops broke ranks" for when they see the man coming down the road in Part IV, Chapter 52?
(a) They run to Ulysses S Grant, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(b) They run to Lincoln, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(c) They run to Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(d) They run to Robert E. Lee, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.

5. Whom does Uther Botkin's slave wish could help her with the planting, but can't because he is in jail?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Jesse.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Duncan tells his sister about the Union and Confederate troops camping so near each other that the music from the Union camp could be heard clearly. What song do the Union musicians play at the Confederate troops' request?

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

3. What does Silas warn Marguerite about before he leaves to become a solider in the Confederate Army?

4. How old is Uther Botkin?

5. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife pray for because it sometimes slows the number of wounded arriving at the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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