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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. For how long does Roger Bevins III say that Russo stayed in the bardo after she was taken in her sixth year?
(a) Six days.
(b) Two days.
(c) Four minutes.
(d) Ten minutes.

2. Who is attributed as the writer of All This Did I See: Memories of a Terrible Time in Chapter 2?
(a) Margaret Leech.
(b) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(c) Rose Milland.
(d) Margaret Garrett.

3. Who is cited as the author of The Washington Powers?
(a) James Morgan.
(b) Margaret Garrett.
(c) D. V. Featherly.
(d) Maxwell Flagg.

4. Who is described as having been killed by the Rebs for tearing down the Rebel flag from a private in Chapter 33?
(a) Col. Ellis.
(b) Mr. Twood.
(c) Mrs. Delaney.
(d) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.

5. Who insisted that Binlay was the finest house in Washington?
(a) Mr. Coombs.
(b) Elise Traynor.
(c) Mrs. Delaney.
(d) Lieutenant Cecil Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work is cited in Chapter 2 by David Von Drehle?

2. Who wrote to President Lincoln regarding his first reception, asking if the President were aware there was a Civil War going on?

3. With whom does the narrator share dialogue in Chapter 1?

4. Who is the former hunter that sits before a heap of animals he has killed in Chapter 37?

5. What word from Chapter 35 means feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Cecil Stone describe of his life in Chapter 26?

2. How is Mrs. Delaney's plight described in Chapter 31?

3. How does Hans Vollman describe his death in Chapter 1?

4. How is the appearance of the Reverend Everly Thomas described in Chapter 9?

5. How is Abraham Lincoln's demeanor described in the Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Isabelle Perkins excerpt in Chapter 7?

6. What is notable about the dialogues of Eddie and Betsy Baron?

7. What story does Elise Traynor relate to Willie in Chapter 13?

8. What is the unnatural predilection that Roger Bevins III describes in Chapter 9?

9. How is the appearance of Roger Bevins III described in Chapter 9?

10. What does the tendril that wraps Willie symbolic of?

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