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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. Which servant leaves Marguerite on the road after the incident with the Union soldiers?
(a) Manny.
(b) Mingo.
(c) Karla.
(d) Kizzy.

2. What arrives on the train that has the men disappointed that they draw lots for?
(a) A couple shirts.
(b) A jug of beer.
(c) A single basket of food.
(d) A couple gallons of water.

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

4. What holiday are Catesby and his fellow soldiers celebrating that they attend a prayer meeting?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) 4th of July.
(d) New Years Eve.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has died in Part IV, Chapter 60, that the grandmother continually prayers about?

2. What is Alexander's explanation for why he is a member of the renegade group?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

5. Why have the renegades stopped the Danzinger family and Alexander's buggy in Part IV, Chapter 44?

6. What happens to the young Union soldier who stumbles into the camp of Alexander and the other renegades in Part IV, Chapter 54?

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

8. What does Duncan tell Sallie about Midge when she comes to visit him in the hospital?

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

10. What happens when Duncan meets Confederate President Davis at an event he attends with Sallie?

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