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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Joining, and The Rifle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tim Harrow doing when he hears about the bloody end of the Waco Siege on 19 April 1993?
(a) Driving through Missouri
(b) Discovering a genetic cure for heart disease
(c) Cleaning McManus' "sweet" rifle
(d) Being arrested for public intoxication

2. How much does Harv Kline want to charge Tim Harrow for fixing his vehicle?
(a) Nothing
(b) $4,000
(c) $400
(d) $20

3. What happened to Harv Kline after Richard Allen Mesinger's death?
(a) The British soldiers hung him also
(b) He went to jail for murder
(c) He fled the country and lived in Bermuda
(d) He became an alcoholic

4. What were the small boys called who hauled powder from the magazine to the cannon during the Revolutionary War?
(a) Powder Monkeys
(b) Swabs
(c) Sons of Guns
(d) Ship's Boys

5. What clears the "mummified grease" (p. 92) from the touchhole of the "sweet" rifle?
(a) John Byam pricks it with a needle
(b) Tim Harrow removes it while cleaning the rifle
(c) A candle flame melts it
(d) Harv Kline's cigarette melts it

Short Answer Questions

1. From age seven to nine years old, Richard Allen Mesington believes he will pursue which profession?

2. What do the colonials call Americans who do not want to gain independence from British rule?

3. What does Cornish McManus use to polish the bore of his "sweet" rifle?

4. According to the novel, how many baseball games did Richard Allen Mesinger watch in an average year?

5. Richard Allen Mesington dreams of learning how to throw what kind of a baseball pitch?

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