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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 hands out the bottles of medicine at the traveling show?

2. What is the first thing Homer hears the boot man say?

3. Who does Fleabottom give money to give Homer a bath?

4. What is the bootman's name?

5. What does Fleabottom call his medicine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the crowd react to Homer in the crate?

2. What do the Confederates do with Homer when they capture him?

3. How does Fleabottom find information from the soldiers?

4. How does Homer describe Professor Fleabottom?

5. How does Homer escape the military?

6. How does Samuel Reed defeat Smelt and Stink?

7. How does Mr. Willow help Homer in this section?

8. Why is Homer able to see through the Nibbly's scam?

9. What do the traveling show learn about the war in chapter twenty six?

10. Who is Mr. Willow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has the death of Homer and Harold's mother effected the two boys? How would there lives be different if their mother would have survived?

Essay Topic 2

How accurate is Philbrick's representation of Colonel Chamberlain? How does he use the story and character to create his representation?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Homer's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the person he is at the end.

1. What did Homer hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Homer ideas about life?

3. How has Homer's character changed by the end of the book?

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