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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 invite the girl that is interviewing her to at her home that night?
(a) Her son's birthday party.
(b) Her birthday party.
(c) Her anniversary party.
(d) Her New Year's Eve party.

2. What is supposed to arrive via rail the day of the holiday in Part III, Chapter 42, which has the men so excited?
(a) Women.
(b) Food.
(c) Water.
(d) Clothes.

3. After attending church in Part I, Chapter 9, who begs Jack to put in a good word with Samuel Gatewood?
(a) Martha.
(b) Susie.
(c) Opal.
(d) Anna.

4. After saying some things that Jesse and the men working alongside him in Washington do not like, what does the recruiter say that gains Jesse's attention?
(a) He says that they have to decide for themselves what to fight for.
(b) He says that Lincoln is the reason that blacks are free to make a choice for themselves.
(c) He says that white men are better soldiers.
(d) He says that they will be paid to be soldiers.

5. What does Silas promise to Marguerite before he leaves to become a solider in the Confederate Army?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) That they will have another child.
(c) To become a better father and husband when he returns.
(d) That he will be the best solider he can be.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money does Silas's nephew offer the slave for sex?

3. Whom does Samuel Gatewood purchase from Uther Botkin?

4. What are woman like Marguerite known as at the governor's party?

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

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