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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 is in the cargo the Watie men plunder?

2. When does Jeff forget about the war?

3. The kind of people can use the church?

4. What is the name of the Negro woman who answers the Washbournes' door?

5. What does Jeff find out concerning Lee Washbourne?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mrs. Washbourne so appreciative to Jeff?

2. What does Jeff tell Lucy about the Declaration of Independence?

3. What does General Blunt ask of Jeff?

4. When Jeff became ill, how does he get to the Jackmans' home?

5. What information does the letter in the haversack contain?

6. What is Colonel Watie's plan that Jeff overheard?

7. Why does Heifer leave the kitchen to fight alongside Jeff in his first battle with the Watie men?

8. After seeing Lucy, what happens to Jeff in Boggy Depot?

9. Where do Jeff and Lucy spend their Sunday?

10. After the Battle of Prairie Grove what do Jeff and Noah do?

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

There are many different things that the author uses as recurring tools in the story:

Part 1) What is the importance of the animals that keep occurring in the story and Jeff's obvious connection with them? What is the significance that Jeff's dog lays down to sleep with him after he returns home in the last chapter?

Part 2) There are many different colors used over and over again in the story to draw the readers attention. What colors stand out the most during the story? Why does the author chose to use colors as a literary tool?

Essay Topic 3

Does it make the book more or less enjoyable to know it is a work of fiction? Would it make the book more interesting if its main characters had actually existed? Explain.

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