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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Palmer know Sherman?
(a) Sherman was Palmer's military academy instructor.
(b) Sherman fought with Palmer's uncle.
(c) Sherman was once Palmer's preacher.
(d) Sherman is Palmer's uncle.

2. What makes the march for the Confederate soldiers at the beginning of the novel so difficult?
(a) The river.
(b) Cliffs.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Mud.

3. Where was Palmer when the Confederacy seceded from the Union?
(a) Sitting in a doctor's office.
(b) Making a bank deposit.
(c) At Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
(d) At the Louisiana State Military Academy.

4. Whose mother dies in childbirth?
(a) Sherman's.
(b) Grant's.
(c) Palmer's.
(d) Johnston's.

5. Who killed the animal that the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 see and shoot at during their march?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Johnston.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal do some of the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 see and shoot at during their march?

2. What makes the Confederate soldiers in Chapter 1 begin to question whether their guns work?

3. How does Palmer's father lose an arm?

4. Who describes the condition of the Confederate soldiers as they march in the beginning of the novel?

5. How old is Palmer when the book begins?

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