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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 51, what are Abigail and Opal planting at the plantation?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Corn.
(d) Peas.

2. What does Marguerite invite the girl that is interviewing her to at her home that night?
(a) Her anniversary party.
(b) Her son's birthday party.
(c) Her New Year's Eve party.
(d) Her birthday party.

3. 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 his father to be a spy for the Confederate Army.
(b) That they know his father to be a spy for the Union Army.
(c) That they know he is a spy for the Confederate Army.
(d) That they know he is a spy for the Union Army.

4. What lesson did Jesse learn growing up that Duncan did not have to learn?
(a) To work hard.
(b) How to survive on very little food.
(c) How to make his own clothes.
(d) When and how to keep his mouth shut.

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

6. In Part IV, Chapter 52, whom does Jesse and his company see coming down the road?
(a) Robert E. Lee.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Ulysses S Grant.
(d) Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.

7. 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) Their food.
(c) Bags of clothing.
(d) Money and their horses.

8. What are Jesse and a group of black men, mostly former slaves, building in Washington?
(a) Embrasures.
(b) A bridge.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A fort.

9. 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 fighting will stop when they have won.
(c) The wounded men are fed better so they will heal quickly and return to the field.
(d) The war happened because the Union is evil.

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

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

12. After arriving in Analaston Island, District of Columbia, what does Jesse set the men immediately to work on?
(a) Finding food.
(b) Making the barracks livable.
(c) Building a fort.
(d) Guard watch.

13. What does Alexander's leader tell him to do when the person stumbles into their camp in Part IV, Chapter 54?
(a) He tells Alexander to shoot the runaway slave.
(b) He tells Alexander to tie the boy up and take him as their prisoner.
(c) He tells Alexander not to lay a hand on the boy.
(d) He tells Alexander not to lay a hand on the girl.

14. 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 to tell his sweetheart, Ally, that he loves her.
(b) He asks him please to watch over his family for him.
(c) He asks him to please find his father and tell him to go home.
(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.

15. What happens to the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?
(a) He is sentenced to death.
(b) He does not get in trouble.
(c) He is put in jail.
(d) He is discharged from the army for his actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. After saying some things that Jesse and the men working alongside him in Washington do not like, what does the recruiter say that gains Jesse's attention?

2. What does Duncan help Jesse do after they spend the night talking in an abandoned house?

3. Catesby writes a letter to his wife. Whom does he urge her to keep an eye on?

4. Where is Catesby involved in a terrible battle in Part IV, Chapter 47?

5. In Part IV, Chapter 63, Sallie writes a letter describing her wedding. To whom does she write her letter?

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