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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jeff leave home?
(a) To replace the mules.
(b) To volunteer for the Union army.
(c) To go to his grandparents home.
(d) To get the sheriff.

4. Whose regiment enters the ambush from the South?
(a) General Lyons'.
(b) Colonel Franz Sigel's.
(c) Colonel Frank Sigel's.
(d) Colonel Fred Sigel's.

5. How many miles is Noah Babbitt's longest walking trip?
(a) Nine hundred miles.
(b) Nine miles.
(c) Nine hundred yards.
(d) Twenty miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Confederate soldiers camped out and sleeping?

2. Who gives Jeff information about Captain Clardy?

3. What of the troops is the first to line up for the march?

4. What does Jeff do at night with his new uniform?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How far did Noah Babbitt walk and why?

2. What does Jeff find when he returns home after hearing the seahorn blast?

3. What is Jeff remembering as he plows the field?

4. How does the army punish the Rebel soldiers who violated their parole?

5. What duty does Jeff draw the day after the Battle of Wilson's Creek?

6. Describe Edith Bussey's homeland.

7. Who is the loneliness volunteer in camp?

8. Why does Jeff think Sparrow is murdered?

9. What happens to the boys on the first morning at Fort Leavenworth?

10. What does Noah know about their new commander?

(see the answer keys)

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