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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 is Lucy Washbourne's father?

2. What does Jeff tell his family of the army?

3. How old is Jimmy Lear?

4. Where is Prairie Grove located?

5. How does Jeff get to Fort Leavenworth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the army punish the Rebel soldiers who violated their parole?

2. Who is the loneliness volunteer in camp?

3. What does Emory Bussey remember about Asa Clardy?

4. Why does Jeff think Sparrow is murdered?

5. Describe Captain Clardy's countenance while speaking to Jeff at Wilson's Creek.

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

7. What are Jeff's father's views in the growing political dispute in their area?

8. What impact does the raid by the Missouri bushwhackers have on Jeff?

9. What duty does Jeff draw the day after the Battle of Wilson's Creek?

10. What does John Chadwick decide to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Is it realistic that Jeff chose to go back to his Union side where he is badly treated rather than stay with Lucy?

Part 2) Would you have chosen your country over your true love? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Which side of the battle would you have chosen to be on? Remember that there were more issues at stake than slavery. Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

The story was told in the third person point of view, from that of Jeff in a limited point of view.

Part 1) Would it have been possible for the story to have been told from the first person point of view? Explain.

Part 2) If the reader had had a wider point of view so that the thoughts and intentions of other characters were known, how would it have effected the story? Explain.

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