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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the Confederate soldiers camped out and sleeping?
(a) Wilson's Creek.
(b) Smith's Creek.
(c) Lee Creek.
(d) Bushy Creek.

2. Who tells David Gardner to go back to the army?
(a) Jeff's father.
(b) Jeff's mother.
(c) David's father.
(d) David's mother.

3. What does Jeff want to with his life?
(a) Work on the farm.
(b) Be a preacher.
(c) Run a grocerystore.
(d) Join the army.

4. How is the camp cook killed?
(a) He is shot in the battle.
(b) He is stabbed in the back.
(c) He is clubbed to death.
(d) He is strangled.

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

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

7. What is the Cherokee Indian Nation's capitol?
(a) Chewey.
(b) Stillwater.
(c) Stillwell.
(d) Tahlequah.

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

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

10. What sounds on the Bussey farm in the case of emergencies?
(a) Edith's loud screams.
(b) Edith's dinner bell.
(c) Emory's large sea horn.
(d) Emory's muzzleloader shotgun.

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

12. What is the name of Captain Clardy's former regiment?
(a) The Missouri Volunteer Rifles.
(b) The Minnesota Volunteer Rifles.
(c) The Mississippi Volunteer Rifles.
(d) The Michigan Volunteer Rifles.

13. What does Jeff tell the captain?
(a) "His bayonet is not broken."
(b) "He did not understand the order."
(c) "He wants to go home."
(d) "He needs to go to the bathroom."

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

15. Who spent time as General Watie's prisoner?
(a) David Garner.
(b) Jeff Bussey.
(c) Joe Grayson.
(d) Stuart Mitchell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jeff disgusted with the army food?

2. When he does not get the office he wants what does Clardy do?

3. What does the woman give Jeff to eat ?

4. Of what war is Emory Bussey a veteran?

5. As the battle rages, what does Jeff think about?

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