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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 is Captain Clardy's first order to his company?
(a) "Mount Up!"
(b) "Peel Potatoes!"
(c) "Fix Bayonets!"
(d) "Stop Crying!"

2. What did Jeff trap in the creek before he went in the army?
(a) Muskrats and otters.
(b) Skunks and muskrats.
(c) Skunks and foxes.
(d) Muskrats and coyotes.

3. What does the officer ask Jeff?
(a) Where to send his pay if captured.
(b) What funeral home he wants used.
(c) When is his next birthday.
(d) What to say to his sweetheart if he passes.

4. Where does Jeff put the mules?
(a) The springhouse.
(b) The woods.
(c) The corral.
(d) The well house.

5. Who is at the Bussey house?
(a) Two older men with canes.
(b) Two young men with their wives.
(c) Two young women with guns.
(d) Two strangers with sawed off shotguns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who deserts the company before they cross the Missouri border?

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

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

4. How old is John Chadwick?

5. Who tells David Gardner to go back to the army?

(see the answer key)

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