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

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

3. Mrs. Meeker believes that her husband is ________________.
(a) Wounded
(b) Still alive
(c) Dead
(d) A prisoner

4. Who is Colonel Read?
(a) A British officer
(b) A Tory officer
(c) A Patriot opposed to the war
(d) A Patriot officer

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Meeker talk to Colonel Read about?

2. Who tries to come up with some escape plans for Sam?

3. Who is one of the people taken away by the British soldiers?

4. Instead of going to the tavern, where do a few of the British soldiers go?

5. Who does Mrs. Meeker speak to on Sam's behalf?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sam respond to Mother's pleas that Sam return home?

2. In what ways do people show courage other than actually fighting in the war?

3. What effort did Sam make to try to save Father after he heard about his capture?

4. How does Tim exhibit that he has the qualities to become the man of the house?

5. What is Tim's overwhelming sense of futility related to the war?

6. Describe the reunion of Sam, Tim and Mother.

7. In what context do the authors want the reader to view the events of the Revolutionary War?

8. What are the circumstances surrounding Tim's transition from a child to an adult?

9. What happens to Tim and Mother after the war is over?

10. Characterize the demeanor and outlooks of the soldiers at this point in the war.

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