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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Uther teach Duncan and Jesse to do in their youth?
(a) Read.
(b) Plow a field.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sing.

2. What does Catesby's daughter say her mother spends her time doing now that her father is dead?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Praying and crying.
(d) Singing.

3. Who stumbles into Alexander's camp in Part IV, Chapter 54?
(a) A young Union soldier.
(b) A young Confederate soldier.
(c) A runaway female slave.
(d) A runaway male slave.

4. What is the name of Duncan's childhood servant who used to light the fire in his room?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Peter.
(c) Parley.
(d) Parker.

5. What do the Union soldiers take from Marguerite and her servants as they are preparing to leave the city?
(a) Their cow and jewelry.
(b) Bags of clothing.
(c) Money and their horses.
(d) Their food.

6. What does Duncan never wear now that he has lost his arm?
(a) Long sleeved shirts.
(b) Shirts with buttons.
(c) Shoes with laces.
(d) Neckwear that requires tying.

7. Jesse travels to visit friends in a nearby company where he hears the men singing. What song does hear them singing?
(a) "There Is A Balm in Gilead".
(b) "We are Climbing Jacob's Ladder".
(c) "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".
(d) "Marching 'Round Selma".

8. What is the Confederate President's answer to Duncan's question at the event?
(a) The wounded are clothed better so infection will not spread.
(b) The wounded men are fed better so they will heal quickly and return to the field.
(c) The war happened because the Union is evil.
(d) The fighting will stop when they have won.

9. Who is Duncan afraid has bewitched him?
(a) Opal.
(b) Sallie.
(c) Midge.
(d) Martha.

10. What does Duncan help Jesse do after they spend the night talking in an abandoned house?
(a) Escape back through the Confederate lines.
(b) Escape back to his regiment.
(c) Escape back to the Stratford Plantation.
(d) Escape back through the Union lines.

11. What is the name of Silas's ship that he is awaiting the arrival of in Part IV, Chapter 53?
(a) Crazy Harry.
(b) Silly Sally.
(c) Funny Farrell.
(d) Wild Darrell.

12. What does Alexander seem to be almost proud of at the end of Part IV, Chapter 59?
(a) His crimes.
(b) His horse.
(c) His family.
(d) His friends.

13. Who has died in Part IV, Chapter 60, that the grandmother continually prayers about?
(a) Opal.
(b) Sallie.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Leona.

14. What does Marguerite demand from the bank after she notices Silas's invoices were not filed correctly?
(a) That they pay her back with interest.
(b) That they convert his assets to gold currency instead of Confederate money or cotton pledges.
(c) That they file Silas's invoices correctly.
(d) That they convert his assess to silver currency instead of Confederate money.

15. What happens to Jesse and several other black soldiers after they are captured by the Confederates in Part IV, Chapter 56?
(a) They are sent directly to prison.
(b) They are beaten and shackled.
(c) They release them with a warning to return home.
(d) The men are being released to former masters, providing those masters want to take them, or they go to jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife hesitate to visit but eventually goes to see in Part III, Chapter 39?

2. What do Jesse's men call Abraham Lincoln?

3. What does a recruiter for the army say to Jesse and the men working alongside him in Washington that they do not care for?

4. Why is Catesby's son not a help to his family?

5. What is Alexander's explanation for why he is a member of the renegade group?

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