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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the worst scene among the evacuees?
(a) Men begging for food
(b) Women vomiting in the streets
(c) Children crying for milk
(d) The women with dead babies who will not relinquish them

2. Why does Uncle George not accompany Nick and his father back to their camp that night?
(a) He is too sick to stay overnight in the woods
(b) He has to go to work in the morning
(c) He is too shaken by what he has witnessed
(d) He is tired of fishing and sleeping outside

3. What is a woman doing on a cart?
(a) Holding a suitcase
(b) Giving birth
(c) Singing
(d) Polishing a gun

4. What does Nick's father hire some local Indians to do?
(a) Plant some new trees
(b) Cut logs that have drifted onto his property
(c) Till a new garden
(d) Paint his house

5. What do the Greek soldiers do to their mules after they break the front legs of the animals?
(a) Bludgeon them to death
(b) Push them off the dock into shallow water
(c) Shoot them in the head
(d) Force them to carry heavy loads

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?

2. A U.S. ship called the Simpson is in a ______________ state.

3. What job did the narrator have in the war?

4. What do the sailors on the Simpson do to the evacuees every night?

5. Whose life does the character of Nick Adams parallel?

(see the answer key)

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