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

2. What is the name of Eben's aunt who says that people like Trumbull are trouble in Chapter 9?
(a) Aunt Sarah.
(b) Aunt Patience.
(c) Aunt Jenny.
(d) Aunt Edna.

3. Whose letter from Valley Forge is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 23?
(a) Colonel Isaac Sherman's.
(b) Henry Knox's.
(c) Thomas Anbury's.
(d) Private Ichabod Ward's.

4. What is contained in the wooden box that Curzon takes from the dead redcoat in Chapter 4?
(a) A compass.
(b) A ring.
(c) A necklace.
(d) Silver spoons.

5. What food does the sergeant obtain and distribute to his regiment in Chapter 18?
(a) Beans.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Rice.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the countersign for "Windsor" in Chapter 20?

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

3. Where is the company from that wins the cabin-building contest in Chapter 22?

4. Who receives Sergeant Woodruff's boots in Chapter 24?

5. What is Sergeant Woodruff's first name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Curzon describe the marching of the British prisoners in Chapter 10?

2. What is foreshadowed by Burns's promotion to sergeant?

3. At what camp had Curzon spent the last winter? How does he describe it?

4. What is the general setting of the novel? When does it begin and end?

5. Why are the three men hanged in Chapter 24?

6. Who are the five men with whom Curzon shares a tent once his regiment sets out in Chapter 11?

7. How is Sergeant Woodruff's funeral described?

8. How is Benjamin Edwards described?

9. How does Curzon describe Eben's appearance by the fire in Chapter 20?

10. Why does Sergeant Woodruff not want his men to dig in building their cabins? Why does he agree to let them do so?

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