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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Silas react after learning that his nephew had sex with a slave?
(a) He does not mind at all.
(b) He punches him.
(c) He yells at him and tells him to leave.
(d) He flips over his nephew's chair and dumps breakfast and coffee on him.

2. 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.

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

4. How many years does the judge sentence Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to serve in jail?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Three.

5. Who arrives at the hospital to visit Duncan and apologizes for his melancholy attitude?
(a) Opal.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Uther.

6. Whom does Uther Botkin's slave wish could help her with the planting, but can't because he is in jail?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Jack.
(d) Duncan.

7. What do Samuel Gatewood's son and his friends do after some Union cadets rush them after listening to a speech at the military institute?
(a) They gather their weapons and return to regain their honor.
(b) They run and hide.
(c) The immediately begin fighting back.
(d) They beg for forgiveness.

8. What is the name of Samuel Gatewood's wife?
(a) Anna.
(b) Abigail.
(c) Amanda.
(d) Adele.

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

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

11. Where is the battle that Catesby and Samuel Gatewood's son are fighting in Part II, Chapter 19?
(a) McDowell.
(b) Williamsburg.
(c) Lexington.
(d) Charlottesville.

12. What property does Samuel Gatewood own?
(a) O'Hara Plantation.
(b) Stratford Plantation.
(c) Mumford Plantation.
(d) Gatewood Plantation.

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

14. What did Uther Botkin inherit?
(a) Property bordering Gatewood Plantation.
(b) Property bordering Stratford Plantation.
(c) Property bordering O'Hara Plantation.
(d) Property bordering Mumford Plantation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman traveling the countryside meets up with a woman named Miss Marguerite. What story does she begin telling her?

2. What are most of the people at the gathering at the governor's mansion?

3. What happens to Duncan and Catesby during the fighting in Part III, Chapter 28?

4. While trying to find shelter from the big storm, whom does Samuel's son find inside a barn?

5. After traveling to where the slaves are held, with whom does Silas's nephew have sex?

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