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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charley do with the rifle?
(a) Throws it at a horse.
(b) Breaks it on the ground.
(c) Throws it in the river.
(d) Shoots a Confederate soldier.

2. What is Noreen's business?
(a) She designs suits for men.
(b) She sews dresses for women.
(c) She decorates hats for women.
(d) She bakes bread.

3. The Confederate office urges Charley to run away in what direction?
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) East.

4. Where does Charley see the first Confederate soldier in the battle?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Sanders Field.
(c) Soldier Field.
(d) Staples Center.

5. When the Charley and the Union soldiers run after the Confederate soldiers, they run into what?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A dead end street.
(c) A trap where they are caught in the crossfire.
(d) More Union soldiers.

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

7. What does "fall in" mean?
(a) To march behind someone.
(b) For leaves to fall in a bucket.
(c) To fall in a swimming pool and drown.
(d) To fall off a roof and break your arm.

8. What happens to Jem in the battle?
(a) He is shot in the forehead and dies.
(b) He is shot in the arm and wounded.
(c) He is promoted to captain.
(d) He gets a new uniform.

9. What two Union generals are rumored to be at the Culpepper headquarters?
(a) General Grant and General Jackson.
(b) General Grant and General Jones.
(c) General Meade and General Ale.
(d) General Grant and General Meade.

10. After the battle, Charley is what?
(a) Unchanged.
(b) A Confederate soldier.
(c) A new man.
(d) A deserter.

11. On the way home, Charley gets into a fight with a member of what rival gang?
(a) The Dead Rabbits.
(b) The Bowery Boys.
(c) The Crips.
(d) The Latin Kings.

12. Con abandons Charley to do what on board the ship?
(a) Write letters home.
(b) Smoke and dance.
(c) Read and write.
(d) Drink and gamble.

13. Charley is almost sent to which prisoner of war camp?
(a) Andersonville.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Savannah.

14. Jem has been promoted to what rank?
(a) Corporal.
(b) Ensign.
(c) Captain.
(d) Admiral.

15. After he joins the Union Army, what does Charley want more than anything?
(a) To go to Georgia.
(b) To be General Grant's assistant.
(c) To be just like Con Sullivan.
(d) To be a hero like his brother Johnny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is camped near the site where Silas Gorman and Charley practice the drums?

2. The Bowery Boys take their name from what?

3. On the long march to battle, Charley becomes what?

4. How old is Charley at the beginning of the story?

5. While practicing the drums, Silas Gorman says they will return to camp if what happens?

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