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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Captain Asa Clardy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What encourages the neighbor boys to join Jeff on his way to Fort Leavenworth?
(a) The rights of the slaves.
(b) The need to belong to a regiment.
(c) The need for adventure.
(d) Jeff's story of the bushwhacker skirmish.

2. What does the bushwhacker do to Jeff?
(a) Chokes him unconscious.
(b) Kicks him in the groin.
(c) Throws him out the frontroom window.
(d) Knocks him unconscious with his gun.

3. What does the army doctor do to Jeff?
(a) Gives him a shot.
(b) Gives him a physical.
(c) Gives him a hard time.
(d) Gives him a soft place to sleep.

4. What is Jeff's punishment?
(a) One week of daily latrine duty.
(b) One week of daily laundry duty.
(c) One week of daily kitchen duty.
(d) One week of daily running.

5. What does the doctor say to Jeff about his chest?
(a) That his chest is fine enough to get shot.
(b) That his chest is rounded.
(c) That his chest is small.
(d) That his chest could catch pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emory tell Jeff to do?

2. Why did one-third of the population flee the Kansas Territory?

3. What does Jeff tell the captain?

4. Who do the neighbor boys tell when they leave with Jeff?

5. When the bushwhacker pulls his trigger what happens?

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