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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. During the physical what does the doctor mention to Jeff?

2. Where is Prairie Grove located?

3. Who is the new commanding officer of the Kansas Volunteers?

4. Where is Edith Bussey from?

5. Where does Jeff carry the wounded soldiers on ambulance duty?

Short Essay Questions

1. How far did Noah Babbitt walk and why?

2. What does John Chadwick decide to do?

3. What is Bess's role in the encounter with the bushwhackers?

4. What does Noah know about their new commander?

5. What made Jeff's mind up about his 'dearest wish'?

6. Who is Stand Watie?

7. What does Jeff find at the Gardner place?

8. What is Jeff's punishment for defending his namesake?

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

10. What does Emory Bussey remember about Asa Clardy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Why is it that Jeff couldn't sleep on the floor in the house when he returns home after so many years of sleeping outside?

Part 2) Speculate on what are some modern day habits that soldiers pick up that they continue once they return home?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) What role does the family unit play throughout the story?

Part 2) Compare the Washbourne family to Jeff's family. In what ways are these two families different? In what ways are they similar?

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