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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Meeker talk to Colonel Read about?
(a) Sam
(b) Tim
(c) The tavern
(d) Mr. Meeker

2. According to the new Rebel laws, people can use ________________ as currency.
(a) Commissary notes
(b) Bonds
(c) Property
(d) Livestock

3. What does Tim take with him to try to rescue Sam?
(a) A rifle
(b) A knife
(c) Soldiers
(d) A bayonet

4. What does Tim tell Mrs. Meeker to get her to go to the barn?
(a) Mr. Meeker has come home
(b) A fire has started
(c) A wounded man is inside
(d) The cow is hurt

5. Why does Sam appear to be in trouble that cannot be mitigated?
(a) He sold guns to the enemy
(b) He deserted his post
(c) He gave food to the British
(d) He was a spy

6. How many years after Sam's death does the war end?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 1

7. What do the cow-boys think of what Tim has told them?
(a) It is the truth
(b) It is an ambush
(c) It is a lie
(d) It is crazy talk

8. According to Tim, Sam gets all the _________ while Tim gets all the work.
(a) Glory
(b) Adventure
(c) Travel
(d) Money

9. What does Tim do when Mr. Meeker has been gone too long?
(a) He leaves the wagon and runs ahead to look for him
(b) He leaves the wagon and hides in the woods
(c) He drives the wagon forward
(d) He turns the wagon back toward town

10. Where is Mr. Meeker buried?
(a) New York
(b) Long Island Sound
(c) New Hampshire
(d) Maine

11. As Tim approaches the stockade, he __________________ and throws the bayonet over the wall.
(a) Slips stealthily closer
(b) Runs as fast as he can
(c) Calls out Sam's name
(d) Screams at the top of his lungs

12. Tim eventually studies __________ and surveying.
(a) Writing
(b) Blacksmithing
(c) Painting
(d) Calculating

13. What is it about Sam that Tim still cannot figure out?
(a) Why he won't come home
(b) What Sam is fighting for
(c) Why he and his father fought
(d) Why he likes Becky Read

14. In what year does Tim write this story?
(a) 1799
(b) 1826
(c) 1776
(d) 1812

15. Who runs the tavern now that Mr. Meeker is gone?
(a) Tom Warrups
(b) Sam
(c) Mr. Beach
(d) Tim and Mrs. Meeker

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Tim think his father would not expect of him?

2. What does Mrs. Meeker shove at Captain Betts for trying to involve Tim in the war?

3. What decision does Tim make?

4. Who is Colonel Read?

5. Where is Tim hit with a musket ball as he runs away?

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