My Brother Sam Is Dead Test | Final Test - Easy

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My Brother Sam Is Dead Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Tim write this story?
(a) 1799
(b) 1812
(c) 1826
(d) 1776

2. Who arrives in Redding on April 26, 1777?
(a) The British soldiers
(b) Mr. Meeker
(c) Sam
(d) Mr. Burr

3. Which of the following is not illegal to pray for now?
(a) Independence
(b) Parliament
(c) The King
(d) British soldiers

4. What does Tim begin to resent?
(a) Not being able to travel
(b) Not going to war
(c) Working at the tavern
(d) Being a Loyalist

5. How many years has Sam been dead?
(a) 47
(b) 22
(c) 15
(d) 31

6. What does Mrs. Meeker admit for the first time?
(a) Tim has permission to go to war
(b) She is glad Sam went to war
(c) Mr. Meeker might be dead
(d) She never was a Loyalist

7. What advice does Sam give Mrs. Meeker and Tim?
(a) Sell the tavern
(b) Send Tim to Yale
(c) Move to a state further west
(d) Slaughter the cattle and hide the meat

8. Instead of going to the tavern, where do a few of the British soldiers go?
(a) The meetinghouse
(b) Mr. Heron's house
(c) The Episcopal Church
(d) The Anglican Church

9. What does the wounded man say that the British soldiers were after?
(a) Food
(b) Munitions
(c) Horses
(d) Ale

10. There really was a ____________ family in Redding.
(a) Stafford
(b) Meeker
(c) Wright
(d) McMecham

11. Why is Tim rude to General Parsons when he visits him again?
(a) He does not want to talk to Tim
(b) He knows Sam is innocent
(c) He insults Tim
(d) He approved Sam's execution sentence

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

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

14. How does Tim feel after Sam leaves?
(a) Pleased
(b) Disappointed
(c) Angry
(d) Outraged

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to anyone caught stealing cattle?

2. Which of the following does not portray war in this book?

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

4. Who is the General Sam serves under?

5. What does Tim think about Sam's being taken away as a cattle thief?

(see the answer keys)

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