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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapters Forty-Four through Fifty-Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jesse doing that causes most men to fall ill or to move on to another job as quickly as possible?
(a) Cleaning out the cesspools around the hospitals.
(b) Burning dead bodies.
(c) Burying dead bodies.
(d) Taking the clothing off dead bodies.

2. What does Jesse say that the "colored troops broke ranks" for when they see the man coming down the road in Part IV, Chapter 52?
(a) They run to Ulysses S Grant, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(b) They run to Lincoln, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(c) They run to Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.
(d) They run to Robert E. Lee, touching his clothing and even his horse with great reverence.

3. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife pray for because it sometimes slows the number of wounded arriving at the hospital?
(a) Winter storms.
(b) The Confederates to win more battles.
(c) Spring rains.
(d) Less men joining the army.

4. After his essay in Part I, Chapter 13, whom does Samuel Gatewood try to convince to stop running away?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Duncan.
(d) Maggie.

5. Where is Catesby involved in a terrible battle in Part IV, Chapter 47?
(a) Near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia.
(b) Near the Lexington school house in Virginia.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a judge sentence Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to jail?

2. How many years does the judge sentence Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to serve in jail?

3. What does Catesby agree to on his final bet?

4. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife tell a young solider who asks if he is going to die?

5. While traveling home from prayer meeting, renegades stop Alexander's buggy. What do they tell the Danzinger boy who is traveling with him?

(see the answer key)

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