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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Palmer know Sherman?
(a) Sherman is Palmer's uncle.
(b) Sherman fought with Palmer's uncle.
(c) Sherman was once Palmer's preacher.
(d) Sherman was Palmer's military academy instructor.

2. Who grew up in an orphanage?
(a) Lavery.
(b) Robert.
(c) Grissom.
(d) Diffenburg.

3. How does Luther come to understand the attack plan?
(a) Someone draws it on the ground for him.
(b) He uses a dictionary.
(c) Someone who speaks English relays the message to him.
(d) He studies the manual.

4. What kind of dog is with Walter?
(a) Boxer.
(b) A Redbone.
(c) Dalmation.
(d) Poodle.

5. Who rides by, impressing Luther as always with his bearing and appearance?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Johnston.
(c) Grant.
(d) Sherman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luther Dade's rank in Chapter 3?

2. What makes the march for the Confederate soldiers at the beginning of the novel so difficult?

3. When he joins the family business, who keeps Grant away from customers?

4. Where are members of the 23rd Indiana camped?

5. What provokes Walter's commander to send him with a message to the general that an attack is imminent?

(see the answer key)

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