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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the balloon land in the middle of?
(a) A confederate calvary.
(b) A town square.
(c) A union fort.
(d) A battlefield.

2. Where does Homer watch most of the medicine show from?
(a) The roof.
(b) His tent.
(c) The tiger cages.
(d) The grandstand.

3. Why did the armies stop using hot-air balloons for surveillance?
(a) The armies would shoot them down.
(b) They got caught too easily in trees.
(c) People refused to fly them.
(d) They were too expensive to run.

4. Where do the soldiers lock up Homer?
(a) A cellar.
(b) A barn.
(c) A cupboard.
(d) A jail cell.

5. What act is after Homer's performance as Pig Boy?
(a) The Brillo Brothers.
(b) Jane the Strong.
(c) The Hopscotch Twins.
(d) The Canned Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Homer say booms into the night as the bottles are handed around?

2. What does Homer immediately realize Miss Nibbly and her brother are?

3. What does Homer say he is chasing as he travels West in the balloon?

4. Where does Fleabottom say the Totally Tattooed Woman is from?

5. What does Homer wake up inside of at the beginning of chapter nineteen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the military surround the traveling show?

3. Summarize chapter seventeen.

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

5. How does Mr. Brewster help out Homer in chapter fourteen?

6. In what way is Mr. Willow not the ideal companion for Homer?

7. How do Griswold and Homer escape?

8. Why is Mr. Willow so vulnerable?

9. What false hope does Homer have in this section?

10. How does Fleabottom find information from the soldiers?

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