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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. Why do the Washbournes show Jeff extreme gratitude?

2. Where do Jeff and Lucy kiss?

3. What is in the cargo the Watie men plunder?

4. What does General Blunt appoint Jeff to be?

5. What is the worth of the train seized from Fort Scott, Kansas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What favor does Jeff do for the Negro slave?

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

4. Describe Boggy Depot.

5. What is Jeff's punishment for refusing to participate in the execution?

6. Describe what Jeff sees at the hotel at Boggy Depot.

7. How does Jeff survive the long walk back to Fort Gibson?

8. How does Fort Gibson get its food?

9. Where do Jeff and Lucy spend their Sunday?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

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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