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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By whom is the woman traveling the countryside in Part I, Chapter 1, employed?
(a) Works Progress Administration.
(b) Moving Forward Organization.
(c) Remembering Our Past Project.
(d) United America Administration.

2. How much money does Silas's nephew offer the slave for sex?
(a) Two bits.
(b) One bit.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Two dollars.

3. How much money is the slave that Silas's nephew had sex with being sold for?
(a) Sixteen hundred dollars.
(b) Twelve hundred dollars.
(c) Two thousand dollars.
(d) One hundred dollars.

4. What is the name of the school that Uther Botkin's daughter attends?
(a) Virginia Ladies College.
(b) Augusta Female Seminary.
(c) Abby's Female Institution.
(d) School for the Gifted and Talented.

5. What is the name of the camp that Catesby sends his wife a letter from in Part II, Chapter 14?
(a) Camp Birmingham.
(b) Camp Williamsburg.
(c) Camp Bartow.
(d) Camp Charleston.

6. Where is Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife sent to work after she is released from jail?
(a) A military hospital in Richmond, Virginia.
(b) A military hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia.
(c) A military hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) A military hospital in Lexington, Virginia.

7. What is Alexander quickly set up as in his new regiment because of his education and ability?
(a) A cook.
(b) A lieutenant.
(c) A sergeant.
(d) A courier.

8. Why does Marguerite not want to have another baby?
(a) She wants to ensure that Silas will love Jacob as his own.
(b) She wants to ensure that Jesse will love Jacob as his own.
(c) She wants to ensure that Samuel will love Jacob as his own.
(d) She wants to ensure that Duncan will love Jacob as his own.

9. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife wish she had done before she was sentenced to jail?
(a) Put up more of a fight.
(b) Pleaded for mercy.
(c) Killed herself.
(d) Ran away.

10. What nickname has Samuel Gatewood's son earned from his classmates?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Chief.
(c) Wheelhorse.
(d) Bucking Bronco.

11. What does Silas do for a living?
(a) Rancher.
(b) Buys and sells slaves.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Farms.

12. What does a Confederate solider tell Rufus and Jesse before shooting Rufus in the chest?
(a) That he will be punished for running away.
(b) That Abraham Lincoln has made the Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) That they are going to die.
(d) That he is lower than dirt.

13. Two years after the big storm, what is Samuel's son guarding in Part I, Chapter 2?
(a) The area prior to the hanging of Matt Louis.
(b) The area prior to the hanging of Jake Bowers.
(c) The area prior to the hanging of John Brown.
(d) The area prior to the hanging of Mike Lewis.

14. Miss Marguerite begins telling the traveling young woman in Part I, Chapter 1 a story. Where does the story take place?
(a) Stratford Plantation in Virginia.
(b) Mumford Plantation in North Carolina.
(c) O'Hara Plantation in Mississippi.
(d) Gatewood Plantation in South Carolina.

15. After his essay in Part I, Chapter 13, whom does Samuel Gatewood try to convince to stop running away?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Duncan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samuel Gatewood do after his slave's third attempt at running away?

2. How does Silas react after learning that his nephew had sex with a slave?

3. What must Alexander Kirkpatrick do if he wants to be pardoned from serving jail?

4. How many months after Uther Botkin's wife gives birth does she die?

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

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