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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, The Cow Lot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jeff knock on the door of the clapboard house in the woods?
(a) To ask for permission to pick up apples in the yard.
(b) To ask directions.
(c) To ask permission to use the bathroom.
(d) To ask permission to cut down trees in the yard.

2. Who do the neighbor boys tell when they leave with Jeff?
(a) The army recruiter.
(b) The widow woman on the corner.
(c) No one.
(d) Their parents.

3. Where are the Washbourne women?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The outhouse.
(c) The cow lot.
(d) The grocer.

4. How many miles is Noah Babbitt's longest walking trip?
(a) Twenty miles.
(b) Nine hundred miles.
(c) Nine hundred yards.
(d) Nine miles.

5. Why do Jeff's hands hurt after the battle?
(a) Bare-knuckle fighting.
(b) Beating Jimmy's drum.
(c) The heat from the canon.
(d) The muskets kick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jeff leave home?

2. What does the army doctor do to Jeff?

3. Where does the regiment march to the battle?

4. How old is Jimmy Lear?

5. Why is Jeff disgusted with the army food?

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