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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 has Sergeant Woodruff using when he was injured in Chapter 22?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A gun.
(c) A kitchen knife.
(d) An axe.
2. What date is denoted at the opening of the Prelude?
(a) March 13, 1777.
(b) January 19, 1777.
(c) October 7, 1777.
(d) April 29, 1778.
3. Who is the burly lad who claims to see Noah on the Hudson in Chapter 11?
(a) Greenlaw.
(b) Burns.
(c) Silvenus.
(d) Jackson.
4. Where does Benny say he was supposed to be enrolling in college this winter in Chapter 18?
(a) Princeton College.
(b) Emerson College.
(c) Harvard College.
(d) Yale College.
5. Who receives Sergeant Woodruff's hat in Chapter 24?
(a) Aaron Barry.
(b) John Burns.
(c) Curzon.
(d) Eben.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are Curzon and his companions force to eat in Chapter 16?
2. From what prison had Isabel freed Curzon in the novel's Prelude?
3. What regular pay is granted to Curzon when he enlists in Chapter 9?
4. Who is given Sergeant Woodruff's pencil nubs after he dies?
5. Whose journal is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 3, describing the Second Battle of Saratoga?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who are the five men with whom Curzon shares a tent once his regiment sets out in Chapter 11?
2. Why does Sergeant Woodruff not want his men to dig in building their cabins? Why does he agree to let them do so?
3. Who is Trumbull and why does he confront Curzon in Chapter 8?
4. What is foreshadowed by Burns's promotion to sergeant?
5. What leads to the reconciliation between Curzon and Eben?
6. What genre does Forge fall into? What are the qualities of this genre?
7. How does Curzon betray the gap-toothed boy in Chapter 4?
8. From whose perspective is the narrative related? Why do you think the author chose this perspective?
9. What food does Eben offer to share with Curzon in Chapter 21? How do they cook it?
10. How are the barracks to be erected at Valley Forge?
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