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

2. Who does Captain Clardy's former regiment elect as the Colonel?

3. What do the new volunteers do when given their first order from Captain Clardy?

4. Where is Edith Bussey from?

5. Why does Jeff leave home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Noah know about their new commander?

3. What does John Chadwick decide to do?

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

5. Who is the loneliness volunteer in camp?

6. How many men in the Union were from Kansas?

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

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

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

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

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) How do Jeff's ideas about war change from the beginning of the story when he is excited to be going off to war, until the end of the story when he is coming home?

Part 2) Are there more physical or emotional changes in Jeff? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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