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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Benny say he was supposed to be enrolling in college this winter in Chapter 18?
(a) Princeton College.
(b) Yale College.
(c) Emerson College.
(d) Harvard College.

2. How does Curzon help the Patriot soldier when he faces off against the redcoat in Chapter 2?
(a) He shoots the redcoat in the leg.
(b) He throws a rock at the redcoat.
(c) He trips the redcoat.
(d) He throws water on the redcoat.

3. When does Curzon say Isabel ran off with their money in Chapter 1?
(a) June.
(b) August.
(c) October.
(d) May.

4. What regular pay is granted to Curzon when he enlists in Chapter 9?
(a) 10 shillings a month.
(b) 30 shillings a month.
(c) 25 shillings a month.
(d) 20 shillings a month.

5. Who is the American Ambassador in France that Thomas Paine's letter is addressed to in the opening of Chapter 22?
(a) Thomas Anbury.
(b) John Bannister.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Henry Knox.

6. Who does Eben say he has gotten into a fight with in Chapter 23?
(a) Aaron Barry.
(b) Thomas Anbury.
(c) Henry Knox.
(d) John Burns.

7. What do the Patriot soldiers do as the British prisoners are marched in, in Chapter 10?
(a) They sing.
(b) They kneel on one knee.
(c) They stand in silence.
(d) The jeer and throw things.

8. Whose journal is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 7?
(a) British Ensign Thomas Anbury's.
(b) Mayor Henry Dearborn's.
(c) Private Ezra Tilden's.
(d) General Gates's.

9. What word from the novel refers to Germans who served but were not incorporated into the British Army?
(a) Nazis.
(b) Recons.
(c) Infidels.
(d) Hessians.

10. What is the name of the "fusspot old tailor with watery eyes" (47) who appears in Chapter 10?
(a) Silvenus.
(b) Burns.
(c) Eben.
(d) Greenlaw.

11. What dates are denoted in the opening of Chapter 23?
(a) February 7, 1778 - February 11, 1778.
(b) February 23, 1778 - March 17, 1778.
(c) March 18, 1778 - March 22, 1778.
(d) December 31, 1777 - January 1, 1778.

12. What troops does Curzon say have the most black soldiers of all the states in the camp in Chapter 7?
(a) The New Jersey troops.
(b) The Connecticut troops.
(c) The Maryland troops.
(d) The Georgia troops.

13. What has Sergeant Woodruff using when he was injured in Chapter 22?
(a) A kitchen knife.
(b) An axe.
(c) A gun.
(d) A shovel.

14. Who is given Sergeant Woodruff's pencil nubs after he dies?
(a) Hugh Faukner.
(b) Greenlaw.
(c) Curzon.
(d) Eben.

15. In what month does Curzon say he fell in love with Isabel in the chapter titled "Before"?
(a) June.
(b) March.
(c) July.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Sergeant of the First Rhode Island Regiment that is quoted in the opening of Chapter 11?

2. Who is described in Chapter 11 as "a farm boy said to be the fastest runner in the brigade" (54)?

3. Who gives the nod for the soldiers to begin filling Sergeant Woodruff's grave in Chapter 23?

4. Who does Curzon say had been taken to the Yellow Springs hospital for the bloody flux in Chapter 22?

5. Who is the New Hampshire Major whose journal is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 10?

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