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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife get to the jail after being sentenced?
(a) By carriage.
(b) They are dragged.
(c) By horseback.
(d) They walk.

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

3. To whom does Catesby want Samuel Gatewood to write a letter?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Jesse.

4. What are woman like Marguerite known as at the governor's party?
(a) Friendly companions.
(b) Outside wives.
(c) Non-wives.
(d) Whores.

5. Catesby writes a letter to his wife in Part III, Chapter 32. What does he tell her has happened to Duncan?
(a) He has been severely injured and has lost a foot.
(b) He has been severely injured and has lost a leg.
(c) He has been severely injured and has brain damage.
(d) He has been severely injured and has lost an arm.

6. Where does Jesse decide to go to look for a new job?
(a) Ramifications.
(b) A plantation.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A bakery.

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

8. How many months after Uther Botkin's wife gives birth does she die?
(a) Six.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

9. Miss Marguerite begins telling the traveling young woman in Part I, Chapter 1 a story. When does the story take place?
(a) March 22, 1859.
(b) April 22, 1856.
(c) January 22, 1857.
(d) February 22, 1858.

10. Where does Alexander arrive in Part III, Chapter 29, just before a big fight?
(a) Fredericksburg, Virginia.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Lexington, Virginia.
(d) Williamsburg, Virginia.

11. Where does Catesby tell Samuel he should send someone to get his son who has been wounded in battle?
(a) Wilson's Hotel.
(b) Crafton's Hotel.
(c) Viewmont Hotel.
(d) Jackson's Hotel.

12. To whom is Alexander Kirkpatrick married?
(a) Sara Botkin.
(b) Susie Botkin.
(c) Sallie Botkin.
(d) Sammy Botkin.

13. What does Catesby and a fellow soldier do when a Union soldier stumbles into their camp?
(a) They fight him and he runs off.
(b) They tell the boy to return the way he came.
(c) They kill him.
(d) They take him as a prisoner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Marguerite living in Part III, Chapter 28?

2. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife tell a young solider who asks if he is going to die?

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 is the name of Catesby Byrd's wife?

5. Two years after the big storm, what is Samuel's son guarding in Part I, Chapter 2?

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