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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. To whom is George Washington's letter addressed that opens Chapter 20?
(a) Thomas Anbury.
(b) Jehu Grant.
(c) Sergeant John Smith.
(d) Henry Laurens.

2. Who is attributed to the quote that opens Chapter 2?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Ben Franklin.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. Where did Curzon serve for Judge Bellingham?
(a) Boston.
(b) Portland.
(c) Hackensack.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. Who is the burly lad who claims to see Noah on the Hudson in Chapter 11?
(a) Greenlaw.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Burns.
(d) Silvenus.

5. What is the name of the "fusspot old tailor with watery eyes" (47) who appears in Chapter 10?
(a) Greenlaw.
(b) Eben.
(c) Silvenus.
(d) Burns.

Short Answer Questions

1. With how many soldiers does Curzon share his tent after enlisting in Chapter 10?

2. Who is the Rhode Island slave whose pension application is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 4?

3. What date is denoted at the opening of Chapter 15?

4. What are Curzon and his companions force to eat in Chapter 16?

5. What troops does Curzon say have the most black soldiers of all the states in the camp in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the barracks to be erected at Valley Forge?

2. What does Curzon do the help the Patriot soldier in Chapter 2?

3. How is Benjamin Edwards described?

4. Who are the five men with whom Curzon shares a tent once his regiment sets out in Chapter 11?

5. What arrives as the Christmas rations in Chapter 19?

6. How does Curzon betray the gap-toothed boy in Chapter 4?

7. Why are the three men hanged in Chapter 24?

8. What is foreshadowed by Burns's promotion to sergeant?

9. How does Curzon describe Eben's appearance by the fire in Chapter 20?

10. When is the Prelude set? Where is Curzon when he awakens in the Prelude?

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