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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. Who does Jeff ask for at the Washbournes' door?

2. What is on the other side of the river?

3. What does Jeff put on the cow's back?

4. What is the name of the Negro woman who answers the Washbournes' door?

5. Who does Jeff ask Lucy to care for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Jeff sees at the hotel at Boggy Depot.

2. What is the "social duty" detail that Jeff is ordered to participate in?

3. After the Battle of Prairie Grove what do Jeff and Noah do?

4. What favor does Jeff do for the Negro slave?

5. Describe Boggy Depot.

6. How does Fort Gibson get its food?

7. What is Colonel Watie's plan that Jeff overheard?

8. What is Rebel coffee?

9. What does Jeff find in the Washbournes' cow lot?

10. What does Jeff know about bloodhounds?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Explain the role that Clardy has in the story.

Part 2) How would the story have been different without Clardy?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy asks Jeff in her letter if he thinks of her and asks him to write back.

Part 1) What does Jeff most likely write back in his letter.

Part 2) What challenges did the people face in reuniting with their loved ones after the war was over?

Essay Topic 3

Does it make the book more or less enjoyable to know it is a work of fiction? Would it make the book more interesting if its main characters had actually existed? Explain.

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