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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. How did Mrs. Butler make Emma's air look gray?

2. What did the Union soldiers find on Aylesworth's accomplice?

3. What formed the border states with Kentucky?

4. What was Emma's reward for her action in Louisville?

5. What did Emma wave when approaching the sentry of the Union camp according to Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Emma tell Ayelsworth according to Chapter 14, and how did he respond?

2. What were the rumors at the gala according to Chapter 13?

3. What did the sentry arrange at the beginning of Chapter 10?

4. How did Mrs. Butler help Emma at the start of Chapter 9?

5. Why were the blue coats waving to Emma?

6. Why did Franklin Thompson come to McClellan's mind?

7. By whom was the Confederate Army strengthened?

8. What did General McClellan give Emma and why?

9. What happened when Emma was treating a wounded soldier in the enemy's camp?

10. Who gave Emma a job?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the impact that Emma's illness had on her role in the Union Army and the ramifications of being listed as AWOL.

Essay Topic 3

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

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