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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. 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?
(a) Dixie.
(b) Here's Your Mule.
(c) Southern Wagon.
(d) Bonnie Blue Flag.

2. At the hospital that she works at, Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife has to dump piles of used bandages into a pit. What else does she see inside the pit?
(a) Hundreds of boots.
(b) Piles of rotting human flesh.
(c) Piles of human heads.
(d) Piles of torn up clothing.

3. Where is Samuel Gatewood's son hit by a bullet during battle?
(a) His shoulder.
(b) His leg.
(c) His arm.
(d) His stomach.

4. What is Jesse doing that causes most men to fall ill or to move on to another job as quickly as possible?
(a) Burning dead bodies.
(b) Burying dead bodies.
(c) Cleaning out the cesspools around the hospitals.
(d) Taking the clothing off dead bodies.

5. Where are Jesse and his company assigned to work in Part IV, Chapter 52?
(a) At a factory.
(b) Cleaning latrines.
(c) Building a bridge.
(d) On a dock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Marguerite and her servants preparing to leave when they are beset by Union soldiers on the road?

2. What happens to the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?

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. Who visits Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife in jail?

5. How old is the newspaper that Jesse reads to his men about the Gettysburg Address?

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