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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 27 - 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Curzon vow to do as he falls asleep in the end of Chapter 35?
(a) To break out of prison.
(b) To kill Bellingham.
(c) To marry Isabel.
(d) To contact his brother.

2. What troops does Curzon say have the most black soldiers of all the states in the camp in Chapter 7?
(a) The New Jersey troops.
(b) The Georgia troops.
(c) The Maryland troops.
(d) The Connecticut troops.

3. Who does Curzon say had been taken to the Yellow Springs hospital for the bloody flux in Chapter 22?
(a) Eben.
(b) Peter Brown.
(c) Henry Knox.
(d) Thomas Anbury.

4. What word from the novel refers to Germans who served but were not incorporated into the British Army?
(a) Recons.
(b) Infidels.
(c) Hessians.
(d) Nazis.

5. Whose journal is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 3, describing the Second Battle of Saratoga?
(a) Jehu Grant's.
(b) Major Henry Dearborn's.
(c) Thomas Anbury's.
(d) Private Ezra Tilden's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What additional item does the cook at Eben's camp give Curzon when he asks for more food in Chapter 8?

2. Who is addressed in the letter from George Washington that is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 14?

3. In what prison did James Bellingham believe Curzon had died?

4. What date is denoted at the opening of the Prelude?

5. Who is the Rhode Island slave whose pension application is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 4?

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