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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Con convince Charley to do?

2. Why does Con refuse to pay Charley's boat fare home?

3. What is Charley's punishment for fighting?

4. What insulting nickname does Con shout at Charley?

5. What does Charley suddenly realize in the middle of the battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where there any policewomen in Charley's time?

2. What happens to Charley's drum during the battle?

3. Why does Silas Gorman not want to be a drummer anymore?

4. What does Jem tell Con to do on the ship?

5. How much does Charley earn in the Union Army, and what does he do with the money?

6. In Chapter 6, what new clothes is Charley wearing and how does he feel about them?

7. Who is the solder Charley meets on board the ship, who tries to help him?

8. Who has Johnny's knife?

9. In Chapter 6, which soldier shouts at Charley angrily while the soldier is being punished?

10. What rank has Jem Miller been promoted to in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Charley's attitudes about killing change over the course of the book.

Part 1) What is Charley's attitude about killing Confederate soldiers at the beginning of the novel?

Part 2) How does that attitude change when he actually shoots a Confederate soldier?

Part 3) What is Charley's attitude toward killing at the end of the story? Does he believe the Confederate soldier he shot is alive or dead? How does he feel about that?

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning of the story, Charley fights with a rival gang member, one of the Dead Rabbits. Later, he fights with Cois McRae. Charley realizes that there are "good" fights and "bad" fights.

Part 1) Was the fight with the Dead Rabbit gang member a good fight or a bad fight. Why?

Part 2) Was the second fight with Cois McRae a good fight or a bad fight? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Civil War. What were the two sides? What were the major issues of the war? Could the issues have been resolved in another way?

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