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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the visitor bring Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife while visiting her in jail?
(a) Soap, cheese, and other minor gifts.
(b) A freshly baked pie.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Milk, a brush, and some candy.

2. What do some of Samuel's slaves offer to help Uther Botkin's slave with?
(a) The spring planting.
(b) The fall planting.
(c) The summer planting.
(d) The winter planting.

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

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

5. Why does Samuel Gatewood want his slave to be married?
(a) She is pregnant with his son's child.
(b) She is pregnant with another slave's child.
(c) She is pregnant with his child.
(d) She is too wild and needs to settle down.

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

7. What is the name of the surgeon who receives a telegram that makes him cry?
(a) Jared Lock.
(b) Jack Laurence.
(c) James Lane.
(d) John Lavell.

8. Whom does Marguerite accompany to an expensive gathering at the governor's mansion?
(a) Silas.
(b) Samuel Gatewood.
(c) Jesse.
(d) Duncan.

9. What is the name of Silas's nephew?
(a) Erik Ophikeans.
(b) Enoch Ommar.
(c) Ellam Omohundru.
(d) Ernest Ommon.

10. What does Samuel Gatewood do after his slave's third attempt at running away?
(a) He locks him in the cellar.
(b) He ties him up.
(c) He sells him.
(d) He whips him.

11. In the letter that he writes from camp, where does Catesby urge his wife to stay?
(a) In Lexington with his family.
(b) At Stratford with her family.
(c) At Uther Botkin's place.
(d) Hidden in the woods.

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

13. How old is Uther Botkin?
(a) Eighty-five.
(b) Seventy-five.
(c) Sixty-five.
(d) Fifty-five.

14. 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 delivers the message and returns safely.
(b) He falls into a bramble thicket and runs away.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He trips and falls down a hill, breaking his leg.

15. What is the name of the horse that Duncan has had since he was a child?
(a) Trixie.
(b) Gypsy.
(c) Lady.
(d) Ruby.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the story opens, what is the young woman traveling the countryside in search of?

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

3. What is the name of the house that Silas arrives at where there is prostitution and evening entertainment?

4. How much money does Silas's nephew offer the slave for sex?

5. What does a Confederate solider tell Rufus and Jesse before shooting Rufus in the chest?

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