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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. Who is attributed to the quote that opens Chapter 2?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Ben Franklin.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

3. Who is the New Hampshire Major whose journal is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 5?
(a) Major Henry Dearborn.
(b) Major Ebenezer Woodruff.
(c) Major Jehu Grant.
(d) Major Thomas Anbury.

4. Who does Isabel want to find in Charleston in the Prelude?
(a) Mary.
(b) Rakel.
(c) Anna.
(d) Ruth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Curzon describe his regiment eating for dinner after working on the cabin in Chapter 19?

3. What date opens Chapter 3?

4. What food does Eben take Curzon to eat at camp in the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. What items does Trumbull claim Curzon stole from him in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Curzon betray the gap-toothed boy in Chapter 4?

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

4. What do Curzon and his unit discover when they arrive at Valley Forge?

5. What does Curzon do the help the Patriot soldier in Chapter 2?

6. Why does Burns miss out on the rice rations in Chapter 18? How does he respond?

7. What food does Eben offer to share with Curzon in Chapter 21? How do they cook it?

8. How is Benjamin Edwards described?

9. How does Eben respond to the stolen goods in Curzon's bag in Chapter 9?

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

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