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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Silas's crew of blockade-runners?
(a) The Wild Farrell.
(b) The Wild Darrell.
(c) The Crazy Perry.
(d) The Crazy Harry.

2. What does the young Danzinger boy ask Alexander to do for him after it becomes evident the renegades are going to kill him?
(a) He asks him please to watch over his family for him.
(b) He asks him to please find his father and tell him to go home.
(c) He asks him to tell his sweetheart, Ally, that he loves her.
(d) He asks him to tell his family that he loves them and that his younger brother will have to take over as man of the house.

3. Where are Marguerite and her servants preparing to leave when they are beset by Union soldiers on the road?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Lexington.
(d) Wilmington.

4. Whom does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife hesitate to visit but eventually goes to see in Part III, Chapter 39?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Duncan.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Alexander.

5. Why is Silas in the Confederate Army in Part IV, Chapter 61?
(a) He was drafted.
(b) He was forced; they would have killed him if he did not join.
(c) Maggie wanted him too.
(d) He volunteered.

6. What is the name of Catesby's daughter?
(a) Pauline.
(b) Molly.
(c) Patty.
(d) Marsha.

7. What does Marguerite think her children are going to try to get her to sell while they are visiting?
(a) The bank.
(b) Her jewelry.
(c) Her story to another newspaper.
(d) Her house.

8. 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 through the Union lines.
(d) Escape back to the Stratford Plantation.

9. What is supposed to arrive via rail the day of the holiday in Part III, Chapter 42, which has the men so excited?
(a) Water.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Women.
(d) Food.

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

11. Where is Catesby involved in a terrible battle in Part IV, Chapter 47?
(a) Charleston, South Carolina.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Near the Lexington school house in Virginia.
(d) Near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia.

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

13. Who shoots the young Danzinger boy?
(a) Alexander.
(b) One of the Union soldiers.
(c) One of the Union renegades.
(d) One of the Confederate renegades.

14. What holiday are Catesby and his fellow soldiers celebrating that they attend a prayer meeting?
(a) Christmas.
(b) New Years Eve.
(c) 4th of July.
(d) Easter.

15. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter 37, who are washing the corpse of Uther Botkin?
(a) Susie and Jack.
(b) Anna and Jesse.
(c) Opal and Franky.
(d) Martha and Jacob.

Short Answer Questions

1. After one of her servants leaves her on the road, what does Marguerite use to carry a small ham and some other small belongings?

2. What does Duncan say will happen to the people of Virginia if the state falls?

3. How does Silas describe the conditions in the Confederate Army?

4. What happens to the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?

5. What does Alexander's leader tell him to do when the person stumbles into their camp in Part IV, Chapter 54?

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