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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jeff tell his family of the army?
(a) How horrible it is.
(b) Stories of his new life.
(c) How the shoes hurt.
(d) How hungry he is .

2. What does Jeff leave on the mules?
(a) The bridle.
(b) The blanket.
(c) The sadle.
(d) The harness.

3. What Indians make up the Union Indian Home Guards?
(a) The Creeks and the Mounds.
(b) The Creeks and the Seminoles.
(c) The Cherokees and the Creeks.
(d) The Apachee and the Seminoles.

4. Who is the sixteen-year-old neighbor that travels with Jeff?
(a) Tess Parker.
(b) Ross Heifer.
(c) David Garner.
(d) John Chadwick.

5. What is the name of Jeff's dog?
(a) Rind.
(b) Robert.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Ring.

6. What does Jeff promise to do if he survives the battle?
(a) Go home to see his momma.
(b) Leave the army.
(c) Go to see Lucy.
(d) Attend church regularly.

7. Who does Captain Clardy's former regiment elect as the Colonel?
(a) Jackson Davis.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

8. What is Jeff's punishment?
(a) One week of daily running.
(b) One week of daily kitchen duty.
(c) One week of daily latrine duty.
(d) One week of daily laundry duty.

9. Emory tells Jeff that Captain Clardy has what kind of ways?
(a) Harsh and brual.
(b) Strange and vindictive.
(c) Sad and provocative.
(d) Weird and dangerous.

10. How many miles do the troops march a day?
(a) Ten to twenty miles.
(b) Twenty-five to thiry miles.
(c) Twenty to twenty-five miles.
(d) Fifteen to eighteen miles.

11. Where does Jeff go the day after the fight?
(a) Fort Leavenworth.
(b) Fort Payne.
(c) Fort Sill.
(d) Fort Smith.

12. When Jeff returns to the home what does he see?
(a) The men holding his father at gunpoint.
(b) The men holding his sisters on their laps.
(c) The men choking his mother.
(d) The men eating his supper.

13. What does Jeff do at the Washbourne home for a meal?
(a) Chop firewood.
(b) Hoe the garden.
(c) Fix the roof.
(d) Slop hogs.

14. Why do Jeff and Dixie go walking in the Missouri woods?
(a) Clearing his head.
(b) Looking for ripe persimmons.
(c) He is deserting.
(d) Hiding from Captain Clardy.

15. Who lives in the clapboard house in the woods?
(a) Mrs. Lyons.
(b) Mrs. McComas.
(c) Mrs. Sigel.
(d) Mrs. Ivey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jeff's fear as he leaves the house?

2. Who is at the Bussey house?

3. How old is Jimmy Lear?

4. What does Jeff tell the captain?

5. How many miles is Noah Babbitt's longest walking trip?

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