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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Rhode Island slave whose pension application is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 4?
(a) Ezra Tilden.
(b) Ebenezer Woodruff.
(c) Thomas Anbury.
(d) Jehu Grant.

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

3. Whose journal is cited in the opening of Chapter 21?
(a) Private Ezra Tilden's.
(b) Joseph Plumb Martin's.
(c) Private George Ewing's.
(d) Thomas Anbury's.

4. Who is the Rhode Island General whose report to George Washington is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 15?
(a) General James Varnum.
(b) General Henry Laurens.
(c) General Jehu Grant.
(d) General John Smith.

5. Who are assigned digging a privy trench for the camp in Chapter 17?
(a) Silvenus and Eben.
(b) Jack and Paul.
(c) John and Roger.
(d) The Janack twins.

6. The author opens Chapter 9 with an excerpt of a journal from a soldier who enlisted in the Continental Army at the age of 13. What was his name?
(a) Daniel Granger.
(b) Ebenezer Woodruff.
(c) Ezra Tilden.
(d) Jehu Grant.

7. Whose journal is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 3, describing the Second Battle of Saratoga?
(a) Thomas Anbury's.
(b) Jehu Grant's.
(c) Private Ezra Tilden's.
(d) Major Henry Dearborn's.

8. How many British prisoners have been taken by the Patriots at Curzon's camp in Chapter 10?
(a) 7,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 6,000.
(d) 1,000.

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

10. What animals does Curzon describe as the most fearful to him in the forest in Chapter 1?
(a) Boar.
(b) Bears.
(c) Alligators.
(d) Wolves.

11. With whom does Eben say he went scavenging in Chapter 21?
(a) Private George Ewing.
(b) John Burns.
(c) John Bannister.
(d) Thomas Anbury.

12. What date is denoted at the opening of Chapter 15?
(a) December 22, 1777.
(b) March 13, 1777.
(c) October 7, 1777.
(d) June 1, 1778.

13. Who does Curzon say had been taken to the Yellow Springs hospital for the bloody flux in Chapter 22?
(a) Henry Knox.
(b) Eben.
(c) Thomas Anbury.
(d) Peter Brown.

14. What is the name of the larger hill behind Mount Joy?
(a) Mount Misery.
(b) Mount Casper.
(c) Mount Rose.
(d) Mount Vernon.

15. Whose quote describing the Battles of Saratoga opens Chapter 6?
(a) Jehu Grant's.
(b) British Ensign Thomas Anbury's.
(c) Private Ezra Tilden's.
(d) Major Henry Dearborn's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far is the camp at Valley Forge from Philadelphia?

2. What does the British Army do at the end of Chapter 5?

3. Who is given Sergeant Woodruff's pencil nubs after he dies?

4. In what regiment is Eben assigned?

5. Who is described in Chapter 11 as "a stoop-shouldered son of a fisherman who liked to draw" (54)?

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