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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 arrives unexpectedly at the Meeker tavern?
(a) Mr. Beach
(b) Mr. Meeker
(c) Tim Meeker
(d) Sam Meeker

2. The town of Redding is divided into how many parts?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 3

3. Who offers to take Tim on as a surveying apprentice?
(a) Mr. Heron
(b) Mr. Read
(c) Mr. Beach
(d) Mr. Sanford

4. What body of water amazes Tim when he first sees it?
(a) Atlantic Ocean
(b) Lake Champlain
(c) Hudson River
(d) Lake Michigan

5. Who rescues Mr. Meeker and Tim?
(a) Loyalists
(b) Mr. Heron
(c) British soldiers
(d) Mr. Burr

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pushes Tim to pick a side over the war?

2. In what month of the year does the novel begin?

3. What have the locals formed to keep things under control?

4. What is the name of Mr. Meeker's newspaper?

5. What does Mrs. Meeker often tell Betsy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the author showing how Tim is more like Sam than he might want to think?

2. How has the war taken a toll on the security of ordinary people during this time?

3. What is Father's position about Sam's wanting to go to war?

4. How is life in Redding a false sense of normalcy during this period?

5. How do Father and Tim interact now that Sam is gone?

6. How is Tim showing more maturity than Sam at this point in the story?

7. What is the nature of the conversation between Tim and Ezekiel?

8. In addition to uncertainty, how is powerlessness an important element in what the people of Redding are experiencing?

9. Explain Tim's mixed feelings about the trip to Verplancks Point.

10. Explain the uncertainty of war experienced by the people in Redding.

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