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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26 - 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color skirt does Roger Bevins III describe Miranda Debb as favoring in Chapter 29?
(a) Pink.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

2. Upon whose face does the Reverend Thomas place his hands in Chapter 29?
(a) Miranda Debb's.
(b) Thomas Havens's.
(c) Elson Farwell's.
(d) Jane Ellis's.

3. Who wrote to President Lincoln regarding his first reception, asking if the President were aware there was a Civil War going on?
(a) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(b) Ben Wade.
(c) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.
(d) Margaret Leech.

4. Who was Abraham Lincoln's secretary during his first term?
(a) Jo Brunt.
(b) Maxwell Flagg.
(c) William Stoddard.
(d) James Morgan.

5. How many horses does Lieutenant Cecil Stone claim to have in Chapter 27?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Roger Bevins III say that Russo stayed in the bardo after she was taken in her sixth year?

2. What is described on the doorsteps of the building in the beginning of Chapter 33?

3. What work by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. is cited in Chapter 1?

4. Who is described in Chapter 37 as constantly mumbling about his grandson's excellent university marks?

5. Who is the Prussian nobleman that attended the Lincolns' state dinner, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

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