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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While practicing the drums, Silas Gorman says they will return to camp if what happens?
(a) If they find a skull.
(b) If the Indians start to arrive.
(c) If the Confederate soldiers hear them.
(d) If they hear the ocean waves.

2. On the train to the regiment, what does one man suggest they do with Charley?
(a) Give him a hot air balloon.
(b) Teach him a lesson.
(c) Make him a junior officer.
(d) Send him home to grow.

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

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

5. What war does Charley find himself swept into?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Con refuse to pay Charley's boat fare home?

2. What gang was Charley's brother Johnny a member of before he joined the army?

3. Con tells Charley that he can become what?

4. What is Con's last name?

5. Silas Gorman says that Charlie has learned as much in two months as Silas learned in how long?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does incorrigible mean?

2. What does Silas have to do before he can achieve his goal?

3. Who has Johnny's knife?

4. Who is the solder Charley meets on board the ship, who tries to help him?

5. Does Charley get to be a soldier when he gets to Johnny's old regiment?

6. In Chapter 6, which soldier shouts at Charley angrily while the soldier is being punished?

7. Who sneaks Charley onto the soldier's boat?

8. Which of Charley's friends is killed at Sanders Field, and how?

9. What is the reason Con Sullivan gives for returning Johnny's watch to his family?

10. Which friend of Charley's is wounded at Sanders Field?

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