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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) A sling.
(b) A small cart.
(c) A handbag.
(d) A suitcase.

2. What does Silas promise to Marguerite before he leaves to become a solider in the Confederate Army?
(a) That they will have another child.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) That he will be the best solider he can be.
(d) To become a better father and husband when he returns.

3. While awaiting the arrival of his ship, why has Silas begun to be angry about Marguerite?
(a) He has begun to be angry about Marguerite's insistence that she remain away from society as much as possible.
(b) He has begun to be angry about Marguerite's attitude about his long hours at work.
(c) She is flirting with a lot of his men.
(d) He does not like her son Jacob.

4. What does Catesby save from his holiday dinner to share with his bunkmate?
(a) A piece of bacon.
(b) A piece of ham.
(c) A piece of cake.
(d) A piece of bread.

5. Where is Silas killed?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Petersburg.

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

7. What does Catesby tell his wife, in a letter, that he has given up?
(a) Having affairs.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Killing.

8. Where does Duncan return to two days after Christmas in Part IV, Chapter 60?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Williamsburg.
(c) Lexington.
(d) Richmond.

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

10. What do the Union soldiers tell Marguerite's servants after besetting them on the road?
(a) That they are eventually going to die.
(b) That they had better turn around and go the other way.
(c) That they can come with them.
(d) That they should head to Mexico.

11. What is the name of the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?
(a) Potts.
(b) Carter.
(c) Leroy.
(d) Garner.

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

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

14. While traveling home from prayer meeting, renegades stop Alexander's buggy. What do they tell the Danzinger boy who is traveling with him?
(a) That they know he is a spy for the Union Army.
(b) That they know his father to be a spy for the Confederate Army.
(c) That they know his father to be a spy for the Union Army.
(d) That they know he is a spy for the Confederate Army.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catesby say to a fellow soldier right before he dies?

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

3. Whom does Duncan see at an event he attends that he manages a private conversation with in Part III, Chapter 43?

4. At the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 51, what are Abigail and Opal planting at the plantation?

5. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter 37, who are washing the corpse of Uther Botkin?

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