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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. To whom did Emma bring food?

2. What show did Emma remember seeing in Washington?

3. What was nagging Emma when she enlisted?

4. How were spies executed?

5. Who tried to discourage Emma from going on the battlefield at the start of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Emma remind herself of when she looked at the Confederate's campfires?

2. What did Emma note about the Confederate camp?

3. For what did Emma choose to volunteer?

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

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

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

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

8. Who helped Emma at the start of Chapter 4?

9. What did a sergeant accuse Private Thompson of at the start of Chapter 2?

10. Who led Emma through the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why some people thought that Emma Edmonds' account of the Civil War was scandalous and how W.S. Williams defended her.

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