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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 did Uther Botkin inherit?
(a) Property bordering O'Hara Plantation.
(b) Property bordering Gatewood Plantation.
(c) Property bordering Mumford Plantation.
(d) Property bordering Stratford Plantation.

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

3. Why does Alexander demand that he be treated as a prisoner of war while in prison?
(a) Because he sides with the North.
(b) Because he is an abolitionist.
(c) Because he sides with the Confederate Army.
(d) Because he owns slaves.

4. How many months after Uther Botkin's wife gives birth does she die?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Nine.

5. Who accompanies Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to the jail after they are sentenced?
(a) The warden and his wife.
(b) Uther Botkin.
(c) Samuel Gatewood.
(d) Opal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Catesby tell Samuel he should send someone to get his son who has been wounded in battle?

2. Where does Alexander arrive in Part III, Chapter 29, just before a big fight?

3. What is the name of Silas's ship that he is awaiting the arrival of in Part IV, Chapter 53?

4. What is the name of the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?

5. While awaiting the arrival of his ship, why has Silas begun to be angry about Marguerite?

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