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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the soldier pause to do?
(a) Cough.
(b) Drink the water.
(c) Collect his thoughts.
(d) Tell a joke.

2. What is the second question Peyton asks the soldier?
(a) How long he has been in the army.
(b) How the bridge is guarded.
(c) If he is married.
(d) Where he comes from.

3. When does the soldier reappear at the Farquhar house?
(a) An hour later.
(b) A year later.
(c) Never.
(d) The following week.

4. What is Peyton Farquhar's occupation?
(a) Professor
(b) Merchant.
(c) Planter.
(d) Minister.

5. The sentinels are as still as ________________.
(a) Statues.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Night.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Farquhar's demeanor about getting the water?

2. How many other men are on the platform with the man?

3. What is the date of the beginning of Part 1?

4. What does the soldier say happened at the bridge last winter?

5. What do the man's clothes indicate about him?

(see the answer key)

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