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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Con's last name?
(a) Witherspoon.
(b) Sullivan.
(c) Homer.
(d) Hall.

2. What does Con convince Charley to do?
(a) Go to an orphanage.
(b) Run away to join the circus.
(c) Go back home.
(d) Join him on a boat with all the other soldiers.

3. What New York gang does Charley belong to?
(a) The Bowery Boys.
(b) The Dead Rabbits.
(c) The Latin Kings.
(d) The Bronx Lads.

4. How did Johnny die?
(a) He was killed by a Dead Rabbit.
(b) He was killed accidentally by a Bowery Boy.
(c) He was run over by a truck.
(d) He was killed in a Civil War battle at Gettysburg.

5. At the end of the boat trip, an officer tells Charlie that he can be what?
(a) A soldier.
(b) The regiment's new drummer boy.
(c) A member of the ROTC.
(d) A captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charley is thrilled to be assigned to what regiment?

2. On the train to the regiment, the men tease Charley. How old do they guess he is?

3. The Bowery Boys take their name from what?

4. Con says the only reason he returned Johnny's watch was why?

5. Who is Silas Gorman?

(see the answer key)

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