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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 do the men request of the Busseys?

2. Who sounds the Bussey family alarm?

3. What is Jeff Bussey doing with the mule?

4. Who tells David Gardner to go back to the army?

5. When the bushwhacker pulls his trigger what happens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Stand Watie?

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

3. Where do Jeff and the Kansas Volunteers overtake the main force of the enemy being led by General T.C. Hindman?

4. What are Jeff's father's views in the growing political dispute in their area?

5. What chores does Jeff attend to his one day at home on furlough?

6. What impact does the raid by the Missouri bushwhackers have on Jeff?

7. How far did Noah Babbitt walk and why?

8. Why is Captain Clardy so hateful to the volunteer soldiers in his company?

9. Describe Captain Clardy's countenance while speaking to Jeff at Wilson's Creek.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which side of the battle would you have chosen to be on? Remember that there were more issues at stake than slavery. Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Is it realistic that Jeff chose to go back to his Union side where he is badly treated rather than stay with Lucy?

Part 2) Would you have chosen your country over your true love? Explain your answer.

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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