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

2. What does Catesby's daughter say her mother spends her time doing now that her father is dead?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Praying and crying.
(c) Singing.
(d) Drinking.

3. How does Silas describe the conditions in the Confederate Army?
(a) Okay.
(b) Excellent.
(c) Sad.
(d) Deplorable.

4. 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) She is flirting with a lot of his men.
(c) He does not like her son Jacob.
(d) He has begun to be angry about Marguerite's attitude about his long hours at work.

5. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter 37, who are washing the corpse of Uther Botkin?
(a) Opal and Franky.
(b) Susie and Jack.
(c) Anna and Jesse.
(d) Martha and Jacob.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which servant leaves Marguerite on the road after the incident with the Union soldiers?

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

3. What did Uther teach Duncan and Jesse to do in their youth?

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

5. What do the Union soldiers take from Marguerite and her servants as they are preparing to leave the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marguerite take control of the situation when Mingo leaves Kizzy pregnant and distraught on the road out of Wilmington?

2. What happens at the Appomattox Courthouse that Duncan and Thomas Byrd are present at in Part IV, Chapter 68?

3. How does Jesse describe Abraham Lincoln after he sees him coming down the road in Part IV, Chapter 52?

4. What does Silas tell his crew before he leaves to Richmond in Part IV, Chapter 57?

5. What does the army recruiter say that convinces Jesse to join the Union army?

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

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

8. After telling his wife, Leona, in a letter that he has become a Christian, what does Catesby urge his wife, Leona, to do?

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

10. What do the Union soldiers tell Kizzy and Mingo after stopping them on the road as they leave Wilmington?

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