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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Meeker family learns that General Putnam ______________________.
(a) Has left the encampment
(b) Has refused clemency
(c) Has been killed
(d) Has granted clemency

2. What does Mrs. Meeker talk to Colonel Read about?
(a) Sam
(b) The tavern
(c) Mr. Meeker
(d) Tim

3. Who is one of the people taken away by the British soldiers?
(a) Tom
(b) Sam
(c) Jerry
(d) Tim

4. Why did the authors use modern language for the story?
(a) It is easier to read what you're familiar with
(b) It is hard to tell how people talked in those days
(c) To make it a shorter book
(d) Words had different meanings in those days

5. Which of the following does not portray war in this book?
(a) Glory
(b) Suffering
(c) Struggle
(d) Sacrifices

6. In addition to his chores, Sam also has to __________________.
(a) Clean the guns
(b) Plow the field
(c) Go to school
(d) Butcher the cattle

7. What do Mrs. Meeker and Tim do after the war?
(a) Re-build the tavern
(b) Move to Pennsylvania
(c) Go to Florida
(d) Move to California

8. What scares the cow-boys away?
(a) Gun shots from the woods
(b) The approach of Loyalists
(c) The approach of Rebels
(d) A dog barking in the distance

9. Of what did Mr. Meeker die?
(a) Malaria
(b) Cholera
(c) Gun shot
(d) Diptheria

10. What is the name of the real life 17-year-old soldier who was killed?
(a) John Smith
(b) Nathaniel Greene
(c) Patrick Henry
(d) Benedict Arnold

11. What news do Mrs. Meeker and Tim receive in June of 1777?
(a) Sam has returned
(b) The war is over
(c) Mr. Meeker is dead
(d) Sam is dead

12. How does Tim distract himself while waiting?
(a) Naming all the countries in the world
(b) Reading the Bible
(c) Whittling
(d) Cleaning his gun

13. What is a major problem for the people in Redding now?
(a) Illness
(b) Bankruptcy
(c) Hunger
(d) Bad weather

14. Who is hanged before Sam is killed?
(a) Hank Miller, the blacksmith
(b) Clayton MacKenzie, the newspaper editor
(c) Ambrose Barton, a lawyer
(d) Edward Jones, the butcher

15. The lives and deaths of many of the characters, including Jerry Sanford and _________, were written here as they were recorded.
(a) Ned
(b) Marcus
(c) Maggie
(d) Paul

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tim realize now that his father is gone?

2. What does Mrs. Meeker shove at Captain Betts for trying to involve Tim in the war?

3. Who runs the tavern now that Mr. Meeker is gone?

4. According to Tim, Sam gets all the _________ while Tim gets all the work.

5. As Tim approaches the stockade, he __________________ and throws the bayonet over the wall.

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