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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Emory Bussey?
(a) Jeff's uncle.
(b) Jeff's brother.
(c) Jeff's grandfather.
(d) Jeff's father.

2. Who is the sixteen-year-old neighbor that travels with Jeff?
(a) David Garner.
(b) Tess Parker.
(c) Ross Heifer.
(d) John Chadwick.

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

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

5. What is Jeff Bussey doing with the mule?
(a) Plowing the field.
(b) Feeding it grain.
(c) Riding to school.
(d) Grooming it.

6. Where does Jeff carry the wounded soldiers on ambulance duty?
(a) Back and forth to the amputation tent.
(b) To the morgue.
(c) Back and forth to the chaplain's tent.
(d) Back and forth to the latrine.

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

8. What is the name of the shepherd dog Jeff befriends?
(a) Drago.
(b) Darlin.
(c) Dixie.
(d) Davis.

9. What does Jeff do at night with his new uniform?
(a) He hangs it neatly on the tent pole.
(b) He sleeps in it.
(c) He folds it and puts it under his pillow.
(d) He washes and irons it.

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

11. 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.

12. Who do the men impersonate?
(a) Drifters.
(b) Free State men.
(c) Slave traders.
(d) Union Home Guards.

13. How does Jeff feel concerning the captain?
(a) He thinks he is highly intelligent.
(b) He thinks of him like family.
(c) He wants to take him home.
(d) He dislikes him.

14. Who is the new commanding officer of the Kansas Volunteers?
(a) Sergeant George York.
(b) Sergeant Stan Watie.
(c) Sergeant David Gardner.
(d) Sergeant Jim Pike.

15. When the bushwhacker pulls his trigger what happens?
(a) The gun misfires and hits the bushwhacker.
(b) The gun falls to the floor.
(c) The gun goes off killing Emory.
(d) The gun's cartridge refuses to fire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the men request of the Busseys?

3. Why do Jeff and Dixie go walking in the Missouri woods?

4. Where is the Bussey farm located?

5. When Jeff returns to the home what does he see?

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