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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. Whom does Samuel Gatewood purchase from Uther Botkin?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Sallie.
(c) Jesse.
(d) Midge.

2. What is the name of Uther Botkin's daughter?
(a) Susie.
(b) Sara.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Sammy.

3. To whom is Alexander Kirkpatrick married?
(a) Susie Botkin.
(b) Sallie Botkin.
(c) Sara Botkin.
(d) Sammy Botkin.

4. What is the name of Marguerite's maid?
(a) Cassie.
(b) Lizzie.
(c) Missy.
(d) Kizzy.

5. What is the name of the essay that Samuel Gatewood writes in Part I, Chapter 13?
(a) Remarks by a Mountain Agriculturalist.
(b) Remarks by a Southern Abolitionist.
(c) Remarks by a Plantation Owner.
(d) Remarks by a Slave Trader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catesby agree to on his final bet?

2. Where is the penitentiary that Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife are being sent to?

3. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife wish she had done before she was sentenced to jail?

4. As the story opens, what is the young woman traveling the countryside in search of?

5. Where does Catesby tell Samuel he should send someone to get his son who has been wounded in battle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Uther Botkin's wife, Martha?

3. What does Sallie pray for while working at the hospital in Part III, Chapter 30?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What does Ellam Omohundru do with Maggie in Part I, Chapter 10?

8. What does the prison keeper tell Sallie about Alexander during one of her visits with Cousin Molly?

9. Why did Sallie marry Alexander Kirkpatrick in a hasty marriage?

10. While Sallie is working at the hospital, what does a young soldier ask Sallie to do for him?

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