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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 does Silas promise to Marguerite before he leaves to become a solider in the Confederate Army?
(a) To become a better father and husband when he returns.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) That they will have another child.
(d) That he will be the best solider he can be.

2. What are the names of Marguerite's servants, who were former slaves?
(a) Karla and Mingo.
(b) Kizzy and Martha.
(c) Kizzy and Mingo.
(d) Karla and Manny.

3. What do the Union soldiers take from Marguerite and her servants as they are preparing to leave the city?
(a) Their cow and jewelry.
(b) Their food.
(c) Money and their horses.
(d) Bags of clothing.

4. Catesby writes a letter to his wife. Whom does he urge her to keep an eye on?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Jesse.
(d) Samuel.

5. What does Marguerite demand from the bank after she notices Silas's invoices were not filed correctly?
(a) That they convert his assets to gold currency instead of Confederate money or cotton pledges.
(b) That they convert his assess to silver currency instead of Confederate money.
(c) That they pay her back with interest.
(d) That they file Silas's invoices correctly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the newspaper that Jesse reads to his men about the Gettysburg Address?

2. How is Catesby killed in battle?

3. Duncan is somewhat annoyed by the Confederate President at the event. What does he ask him?

4. What is Alexander's explanation for why he is a member of the renegade group?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. After being captured, what does Alexander say when one of the officers asks him what happened to make him fall into this group?

2. How does Marguerite take control of the situation when Mingo leaves Kizzy pregnant and distraught on the road out of Wilmington?

3. How does Jesse describe Abraham Lincoln after he sees him coming down the road in Part IV, Chapter 52?

4. After pulling over the Danzinger family's buggy, what do the renegades order Alexander to do after they question Seth about being a spy?

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

6. What do Marguerite's grown children tell the girl who has been interviewing her at the birthday party?

7. What do the Union soldiers tell Kizzy and Mingo after stopping them on the road as they leave Wilmington?

8. Duncan runs into Midge, now Marguerite Omohundru, at an event, what do they talk about in their private conversation?

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

10. After telling his wife, Leona, in a letter that he has become a Christian, what does Catesby urge his wife, Leona, to do?

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