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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jeff get to Fort Leavenworth?
(a) He rides his mule.
(b) He joins a wagon train.
(c) He rides the neighbor's wagon.
(d) He travels there on foot.

2. What is Emory Bussey considered?
(a) A Bushwhacker.
(b) A Free State man.
(c) A Slave State man.
(d) A Rabblehouser.

3. What happens to Walter Van Orstrand?
(a) He shoots off one of his own fingers.
(b) He gets killed.
(c) He shoots one of his own brothers.
(d) He shoots his own father.

4. What presidential candidate do Jeff and Emory go see on the Campaign trail?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Robert E. Lee.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. What kind of Indian is Joe Grayson?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Mound.
(c) Seminole.
(d) Creek.

6. What Indians make up the Union Indian Home Guards?
(a) The Creeks and the Seminoles.
(b) The Cherokees and the Creeks.
(c) The Creeks and the Mounds.
(d) The Apachee and the Seminoles.

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

8. Where does the regiment march to the battle?
(a) Springtown, Mississippi.
(b) Springfield, Missouri.
(c) Sacremento, California.
(d) Saint Lous, Missouri.

9. What does Jeff leave on the mules?
(a) The sadle.
(b) The harness.
(c) The blanket.
(d) The bridle.

10. How many men are in General Lyon's outfit?
(a) 1200 men.
(b) 3800 men.
(c) 2800 men.
(d) 3000 men.

11. Jim Veatch tosses what on a sumac bush?
(a) His deck of playing cards.
(b) His cowboy hat.
(c) His dogtags.
(d) His gunbelt.

12. Who questions the boys before their enlistment?
(a) The enlistment officer.
(b) The major general.
(c) The physician.
(d) The drill sargeant.

13. When he does not get the office he wants what does Clardy do?
(a) Leaves the South forever.
(b) Leaves the West forever.
(c) Leaves the East forever.
(d) Leaves the North forever.

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

15. What is Sergeant Mike Dempsey's job?
(a) He tends the cook wagon.
(b) He tends the calvary horses.
(c) He tends the sick.
(d) He cleans the latrines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours of sleep does Jeff get after the Battle of Wilson's Creek?

2. What necessity is lacking in the Cherokee Indian Nation?

3. Why does Jeff leave home?

4. Who distributed the propaganda circulars that Noah read?

5. Who does Captain Clardy's former regiment elect as the Colonel?

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