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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tim hear as he is chopping wood?

2. What have the soldiers taken from the people in Redding?

3. Where does Tim put the letter as he heads out?

4. What do the men accuse Mr. Meeker of being?

5. What does Sam do when he sees his father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of obedience in the novel?

4. How does the author show the close bond between Tim and Sam even during this time of conflict?

5. What is the religious split in Redding?

6. Explain the nature of Tim's quandary regarding his position on the war.

7. How does the author show the reality of war for Tim and Father in Chapter 7?

8. How does the author characterize Sam?

9. What are the arguments and sides that people are taking regarding England?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the setting of the novel. Be sure to include major locations, dates and places in your description and be as thorough as possible.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the irony of Sam's being arrested and eventually killed for being a cattle thief.

Essay Topic 3

As the war wages on, Tim becomes less enamored of the glory he had hoped to have one day and focuses on the reality of surviving. Explain why Tim's efforts at home were just as noble as Sam's in the field.

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