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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 happened to Eliza Polk's family?
(a) They ran away to the North.
(b) They went to prison for stealing food.
(c) They were killed fighting for the South.
(d) They were buried alive for using fossil fuel.

2. How was Sarat's father killed?
(a) In a car wreck.
(b) When his boat sank.
(c) When a Bird crashed into their house.
(d) In a bombing of a Federal buildiing.

3. Where did the Chestnut family hide their valuables?
(a) In an old metal can tied to a string and floating in the river.
(b) Under a loose floorboard of their house.
(c) Beneath the rotted out stump in their backyard.
(d) In a drainpipe off the roof of their house.

4. When Sarat and Marcus swim across the water to the rebel camp, what do they find stored in crates?
(a) Chemical weapons.
(b) Millions of Northern dollars.
(c) Land mines.
(d) Large guns.

5. What does Martina do at the camp to earn money?
(a) She writes letters for other people.
(b) She cooks meals for the soldiers.
(c) She does hairstyles and make-overs.
(d) She does laundry for the refugees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food do the Virginia Cavaliers share with the camp?

2. What killed 110 million people?

3. What section of the camp does Albert Gaines ask Sarat to deliver a message to?

4. When the story opens, what is Sarat doing?

5. How old does a child have to be for the vaccine against paralysis to work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Gerry Tusk and how does he relate to the story?

2. How did Sarat's name come to be?

3. Explain what Martina does in the evenings for recreation.

4. Explain why Martina wants Simon to join the Free Southerners and not the rebels.

5. Discuss why the narrator of the book has chosen this time to tell his story.

6. Explain where the South gets most of its provisions.

7. Discuss Sarat and Dana's relationship and the similarities and differences between the two girls.

8. What is wrong with the stars on the Southern flag?

9. Explain the narrator's vocation and how it affects his telling of the story.

10. What story about her life does Martina tell one of the women at the camp when she is drunk?

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