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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, March.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jeff do to the bean soup?
(a) He ate it all.
(b) He added peppers to it.
(c) He poured it out to the pigs.
(d) He switched it with dishwater.

2. Why does Captain Clardy punish Jeff?
(a) Jeff refuses to change his name.
(b) Jeff kicks him in the shin.
(c) Jeff refuses to brush his teeth.
(d) Jeff refuses to clean the bathroom.

3. What does Emory tell Jeff to do?
(a) To go unharness the mules.
(b) To go to town for some milk.
(c) To go pick some corn.
(d) To go peel some potatoes.

4. When Jeff returns to the home what does he see?
(a) The men holding his sisters on their laps.
(b) The men holding his father at gunpoint.
(c) The men eating his supper.
(d) The men choking his mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sergeant Mike Dempsey's job?

2. What does Jeff's mother do that he enjoys the most?

3. Where is Edith Bussey from?

4. What is Jeff's punishment?

5. What sounds on the Bussey farm in the case of emergencies?

(see the answer key)

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