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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. What did Emma Edmonds do to avoid being discovered as a female?

2. Whom did Emma have as an escort on her way out of the camp?

3. How many volunteers did President Lincoln asked for?

4. What were "Quaker guns"?

5. What city was key to the Union Army's strategy in the early days of the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did a corporal give Emma a way out of the Confederate camp?

2. For what did Emma choose to volunteer?

3. Whom did Emma recognize in the Confederate camp and what did she wonder?

4. Where were soldiers gathering at the start of Chapter 1, and why were they anxious?

5. What were Quaker guns?

6. Whom did Emma bribe and who helped her?

7. Who led Emma through the camp?

8. Who did Emma find upon waking?

9. What did Emma do to her skin at the start of Chapter 5?

10. Why did Emma bribe a kitchen worker and what opportunity did it give her according to Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the term biography and discuss how the book, "Behind Rebel Lines" fits into this genre.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the recruitment process for the Civil War for both the Union and Confederate Armies.

Essay Topic 3

Compare the different plans for reconstruction for after the Civil War and discuss the policies that were implemented when the Confederate state came under the control of the Union Army.

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