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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Samuel Gatewood purchase from Uther Botkin?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Midge.
(c) Duncan.
(d) Sallie.

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

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

4. Where is Samuel Gatewood's son hit by a bullet during battle?
(a) His leg.
(b) His stomach.
(c) His shoulder.
(d) His arm.

5. 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 he is his son.
(c) That they are brothers.
(d) That they are half-brothers.

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

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

8. What happens to Alexander after he demands to be treated as a prisoner of war while in prison?
(a) He is put in a dark hole.
(b) He is given no food or water.
(c) He is whipped with a chain.
(d) He is flogged.

9. What happens to Duncan's horse during a battle in Chancellorsville, Virginia?
(a) She is shot in the stomach several times.
(b) She is slashed and her intestines spill out onto the ground.
(c) She stumbles and breaks her leg.
(d) Her throat is slit.

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

11. 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 they are going to die.
(c) That Abraham Lincoln has made the Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) That he is lower than dirt.

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

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

14. After attending church in Part I, Chapter 9, who begs Jack to put in a good word with Samuel Gatewood?
(a) Susie.
(b) Martha.
(c) Anna.
(d) Opal.

15. What is the name of Uther Botkin's daughter?
(a) Sallie.
(b) Sara.
(c) Sammy.
(d) Susie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife pray for because it sometimes slows the number of wounded arriving at the hospital?

2. What does Catesby and a fellow soldier do when a Union soldier stumbles into their camp?

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

4. What is the name of Uther Botkin's wife?

5. What is the name of Marguerite's maid?

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