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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 happens to the surgeon who cut off the head of a black soldier and autopsied it?
(a) He is sentenced to death.
(b) He is put in jail.
(c) He is discharged from the army for his actions.
(d) He does not get in trouble.

2. What is supposed to arrive via rail the day of the holiday in Part III, Chapter 42, which has the men so excited?
(a) Water.
(b) Women.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Food.

3. What is the Confederate President's answer to Duncan's question at the event?
(a) The wounded men are fed better so they will heal quickly and return to the field.
(b) The fighting will stop when they have won.
(c) The war happened because the Union is evil.
(d) The wounded are clothed better so infection will not spread.

4. What do the Union soldiers tell Marguerite's servants after besetting them on the road?
(a) That they are eventually going to die.
(b) That they should head to Mexico.
(c) That they can come with them.
(d) That they had better turn around and go the other way.

5. What does Duncan help Jesse do after they spend the night talking in an abandoned house?
(a) Escape back through the Confederate lines.
(b) Escape back to the Stratford Plantation.
(c) Escape back to his regiment.
(d) Escape back through the Union lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jesse teaching to others in the army before he hears men singing?

2. What birthday is Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife nearing in Part IV, Chapter 50?

3. Where are Jesse and his company assigned to work in Part IV, Chapter 52?

4. What is the name of Duncan's childhood servant who used to light the fire in his room?

5. The work Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife does at the hospital is trying until she realizes the truth of her cousin's attitude. What does she realize?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Duncan meets Confederate President Davis at an event he attends with Sallie?

2. How do Jesse's men react after he reads them the Gettysburg Address?

3. Why have the renegades stopped the Danzinger family and Alexander's buggy in Part IV, Chapter 44?

4. While leading the A Company near Fairfax City, Virginia, what does the surgeon named Potts remind Jesse to have his men do?

5. What happens to the young Union soldier who stumbles into the camp of Alexander and the other renegades in Part IV, Chapter 54?

6. What does Jesse learn that the surgeon name Potts has done that upsets him?

7. What does Silas tell his crew before he leaves to Richmond in Part IV, Chapter 57?

8. What does the army recruiter say that convinces Jesse to join the Union army?

9. What happens to Jesse and the other black soldiers who are captured by the Confederates after a battle?

10. What does Duncan tell Sallie happened when the Union and Confederate troops were camped very closely to each other in Part III, Chapter 39?

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