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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeff do to the bean soup?

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

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

4. What is Jeff's punishment?

5. What Indians make up the Union Indian Home Guards?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the army cooks do with the stagnant pool water?

4. Why does Jim Veatch throw his playing card in the sumac bush?

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

6. What are the other members of the family's roles during the encounter?

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

8. What does Jeff do for Mrs. Mccomas and how does he get paid?

9. Who were the men who came to Jeff's home?

10. How far did Noah Babbitt walk and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Explain the role that Clardy has in the story.

Part 2) How would the story have been different without Clardy?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Find a piece of foreshadowing that stands out heavily in the reading. What does the author use to make the reader aware that this is foreshadowing?

Part 2) How would the story have been different without this moment of foreshadowing?

Essay Topic 3

The story was told in the third person point of view, from that of Jeff in a limited point of view.

Part 1) Would it have been possible for the story to have been told from the first person point of view? Explain.

Part 2) If the reader had had a wider point of view so that the thoughts and intentions of other characters were known, how would it have effected the story? Explain.

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