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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Silas do for a living?
(a) Buys and sells slaves.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Rancher.
(d) Farms.

2. What are Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife forced to do while in jail?
(a) Be completely silent.
(b) Sit in a dark room all day long.
(c) Manual labor.
(d) Make clothing for the Confederate Army.

3. The woman traveling the countryside meets up with a woman named Miss Marguerite. What story does she begin telling her?
(a) The story of Fox's Snow.
(b) The story of Rex's Snow.
(c) The story of Max's Snow.
(d) The story of Cox's Snow.

4. 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) March 22, 1859.
(c) April 22, 1856.
(d) January 22, 1857.

5. How many months after Uther Botkin's wife gives birth does she die?
(a) Nine.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are most of the people at the gathering at the governor's mansion?

2. To whom does Catesby want Samuel Gatewood to write a letter?

3. Where is Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife sent to work after she is released from jail?

4. Years ago, what name was Miss Marguerite known by?

5. Why is the person that Uther Botkin's slave wishes could help her with the planting in jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Silas do to Ellam when he learns of his treatment of Maggie?

2. What happens to Duncan Gatewood when the storm, Cox's Snow, hits?

3. What happens at the military institute, where Duncan is present to hear a speech, which causes a fight?

4. What is Jesse's new job in Part III, Chapter 31, at the hospital?

5. What does a superior officer say to Duncan and his fellow cadets after they rush to get their weapons and regain their honor when the Union cadets pick a fight with them?

6. Why does one of the surgeons, James Lane, ask that all the Union soldiers be taken to another surgeon for the rest of the evening?

7. Why does Jesse keep trying to run away from the Stratford Plantation?

8. How is Alexander assigned to Duncan's regiment?

9. What incident does Miss Marguerite begin with when telling her story to the young woman in Part I, Chapter 1?

10. What does Catesby write to his wife Leona about from Camp Bartow, Virginia?

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