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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Jesse?
(a) Uther Botkin's nephew.
(b) Uther Botkin's slave boy.
(c) Uther Botkin's brother.
(d) Uther Botkin's son.

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

3. As the story opens, what is the young woman traveling the countryside in search of?
(a) Those who remember her great-grandmother.
(b) Those who remember her great-grandfather.
(c) Those who remember the days of the Civil War.
(d) Those who remember the days of slavery.

4. Why does Alexander demand that he be treated as a prisoner of war while in prison?
(a) Because he is an abolitionist.
(b) Because he sides with the Confederate Army.
(c) Because he sides with the North.
(d) Because he owns slaves.

5. What is the name of the hospital that Duncan is staying at after his injuries in Part III, Chapter 32?
(a) Camp Winder Hospital.
(b) Camp Wayner Hospital.
(c) Camp Wagner Hospital.
(d) Camp Wyatt Hospital.

6. 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?
(a) He wants them to all die.
(b) He cannot be certain he will not intentionally harm them.
(c) He is too emotionally upset to work.
(d) He is too tired to work.

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

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

9. Where is the military institute located that Samuel Gatewood's son attends?
(a) Lexington, Virginia.
(b) Williamsburg, Virginia.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Birmingham, Alabama.

10. What happens when Alexander is sent to deliver a message to a particular group about to be hemmed in during the fighting in Part III, Chapter 28?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He falls into a bramble thicket and runs away.
(c) He trips and falls down a hill, breaking his leg.
(d) He delivers the message and returns safely.

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

12. What is the name of Catesby Byrd's wife?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Sallie.
(c) Leona.
(d) Opal.

13. Catesby plays cards with Samuel Gatewood's son and some other young men. What does he lose?
(a) His favorite rifle.
(b) A great deal of money and his watch.
(c) A little bit of money.
(d) He does not lose.

14. What is the name of the essay that Samuel Gatewood writes in Part I, Chapter 13?
(a) Remarks by a Plantation Owner.
(b) Remarks by a Southern Abolitionist.
(c) Remarks by a Mountain Agriculturalist.
(d) Remarks by a Slave Trader.

15. What does Alexander tell Samuel Gatewood's son he claimed so he could be assigned to his regiment?
(a) That they are brothers.
(b) That he is his son.
(c) That they are cousins.
(d) That they are half-brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the person that Uther Botkin's slave wishes could help her with the planting in jail?

2. Whom does Samuel Gatewood purchase from Uther Botkin?

3. What do some of Samuel's slaves offer to help Uther Botkin's slave with?

4. By whom is the woman traveling the countryside in Part I, Chapter 1, employed?

5. Catesby writes a letter to his wife in Part III, Chapter 32. What does he tell her has happened to Duncan?

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