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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. Duncan is somewhat annoyed by the Confederate President at the event. What does he ask him?
(a) When the fighting will stop.
(b) Why the war had to happen.
(c) Why the men are clothed so much better in the hospital than on the field.
(d) Why the men are fed so much better in the hospital than on the field.

2. What happens to Alexander and the group of renegades in Part IV, Chapter 59?
(a) They surrender to the enemy.
(b) They escape into the forest and decide to live there.
(c) They capture several Union soldiers.
(d) They are captured and several of them are killed.

3. 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.

4. Whom does Duncan see at an event he attends that he manages a private conversation with in Part III, Chapter 43?
(a) Molly.
(b) Opal.
(c) Marguerite.
(d) Sallie.

5. What does Jesse say that the "colored troops broke ranks" for when they see the man coming down the road in Part IV, Chapter 52?
(a) They run to Lincoln, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(b) They run to Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(c) They run to Ulysses S Grant, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(d) They run to Robert E. Lee, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jesse believe will be important for the success of his race?

2. Jesse travels to visit friends in a nearby company where he hears the men singing. What song does hear them singing?

3. The work Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife does at the hospital is trying until she realizes the truth of her cousin's attitude. What does she realize?

4. What is the name of Silas's crew of blockade-runners?

5. How does Jesse feel about giving his money to the surgeon, who says he will put it into a savings account?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Duncan tell Sallie happened when the Union and Confederate troops were camped very closely to each other in Part III, Chapter 39?

2. After being captured, what does Alexander say when one of the officers asks him what happened to make him fall into this group?

3. What do Marguerite's grown children tell the girl who has been interviewing her at the birthday party?

4. What does the girl that is interviewing Marguerite tell her she is getting continual pressure to do in Part III, Chapter 39?

5. What does Silas tell Marguerite in a letter in Part IV, Chapter 61?

6. After pulling over the Danzinger family's buggy, what do the renegades order Alexander to do after they question Seth about being a spy?

7. How do Jesse's men react after he reads them the Gettysburg Address?

8. What happens to Jesse and the other black soldiers who are captured by the Confederates after a battle?

9. While traveling on their way home from a prayer meeting, what does young Seth Danzinger talk about with Alexander?

10. What does Sallie realize about her Cousin Molly's attitude in Part IV, Chapter 50?

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