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

2. Who is the only person who can change Sam's verdict?
(a) General Putnam
(b) General Parsons
(c) Colonel Read
(d) General Washington

3. What does Tim do when Mr. Meeker has been gone too long?
(a) He leaves the wagon and hides in the woods
(b) He turns the wagon back toward town
(c) He drives the wagon forward
(d) He leaves the wagon and runs ahead to look for him

4. Which of the following things has not worn down Mrs. Meeker's spirit?
(a) Mr. Meeker's death
(b) Hunger
(c) Taking in sewing
(d) Sam's arrest

5. Who accompanies Tim to Sam's execution?
(a) Betsy
(b) No one
(c) Mr. Beach
(d) Mrs. Meeker

Short Answer Questions

1. What news do Mrs. Meeker and Tim receive in June of 1777?

2. What would Mr. Meeker and Tim do if they see cow-boys?

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

4. The Meeker family learns that General Putnam ______________________.

5. Which of the following does not describe Tim as he waits for his father at the wagon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens that makes Tim feel he is no longer a Tory?

3. What are Tim's options when faced with the critical decision after his father disappears?

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

5. What is General Putnam's final decision regarding clemency for Sam?

6. How do the authors balance reality and fiction in this book?

7. What disturbing news do Mother and Tim receive in June of 1777?

8. Why does Tim begin to resent his new life?

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

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

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