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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. What effect does Jeff have upon returning home?
(a) Happy.
(b) Bitter.
(c) Sad.
(d) Scared.

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

3. What does Jeff do around the farm?
(a) Laze the day away in bed.
(b) Cements the wellhouse.
(c) Take his parents out for a picnic.
(d) Helps with the chores.

4. Where does the regiment go from Fort Scott?
(a) Cherokee Indian Nation.
(b) Linn County, Kansas.
(c) Van Buren,Arkansas.
(d) Fort Smith.

5. Who deserts the company before they cross the Missouri border?
(a) Mike Dempsey.
(b) Jeff Bussey.
(c) David Gardner.
(d) Asa Clardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jeff Bussey doing with the mule?

2. What encourages the neighbor boys to join Jeff on his way to Fort Leavenworth?

3. Who sounds the Bussey family alarm?

4. Why does the captain become angry at hearing Jeff's full name?

5. Who distributed the propaganda circulars that Noah read?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the army cooks do with the stagnant pool water?

2. Describe Edith Bussey's homeland.

3. How many men in the Union were from Kansas?

4. How far did Noah Babbitt walk and why?

5. What happens to the boys on the first morning at Fort Leavenworth?

6. What does David Gardner decide?

7. Why is Captain Clardy so hateful to the volunteer soldiers in his company?

8. What is Jeff's punishment for defending his namesake?

9. On his way back to Fort Leavenworth Jeff stops at the Chadwick farm and does what?

10. What is Jeff remembering as he plows the field?

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