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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is a higher ranking officer needed after Jefferson points out the arrival of new recruits?
(a) A high ranking officer can officially pull the troops out.
(b) To find a good hiding place.
(c) To order more reinforcements.
(d) To devise a battle strategy.

2. Who asks Jefferson where he can find a doctor?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Forrest.
(c) Luther.
(d) Otto.

3. How does Jefferson feel about his military job?
(a) He is neutral about it.
(b) He hates it.
(c) It's the only job he could find.
(d) He enjoys it.

4. Where is Jefferson sworn in as a cavalry recruit?
(a) The general store.
(b) Magnolia Manor.
(c) The county library.
(d) Gayoso House.

5. Where was Bedford born?
(a) In middle Tennessee.
(b) In Boston.
(c) In Missouri.
(d) In southern Arkansas.

6. Why does Jefferson join the army?
(a) For the uniform.
(b) For tuition benefits.
(c) For the sizeable pension.
(d) To delay seeing his father.

7. Who is called a coward in Chapter 4?
(a) Grant.
(b) Walter.
(c) Bango.
(d) Otto.

8. What does Jefferson stand on to watch more soldiers arrive?
(a) An Indian mound.
(b) A tree stump.
(c) A box.
(d) A banana crate.

9. How were Confederate soldiers buried by the Union?
(a) They were not buried at all.
(b) They were draped with branches.
(c) They were cremated.
(d) In mass graves.

10. What is Otto's decision at the end of his recount in Chapter 4?
(a) To return to fighting the next morning.
(b) To take a train home.
(c) To go home on the ship.
(d) To start a family in Tennessee.

11. Which member of the 23rd Indiana is dissatisfied and plans to ask to transfer from that squad?
(a) Pettigrew.
(b) Armory.
(c) Lavery.
(d) Grissom.

12. Why aren't members of the 23rd Indiana close?
(a) They have religious differences.
(b) They attended rival schools before the army.
(c) All of them want to be heroes.
(d) None of them want to be in the army.

13. Who says Union soldiers were happy when Confederates did not charge again?
(a) Grissom.
(b) Robert.
(c) Lavery.
(d) Diffenbuch.

14. Otto learns that Walter was blown up by a cannon. Where did the cannon land?
(a) In his lap.
(b) On his desk.
(c) At his feet.
(d) Behind his chair.

15. Where does Jefferson get the item that he wears when he takes the others to see the new recruits?
(a) It was a gift from his father.
(b) From a dead Confederate soldier.
(c) It was donated by a stranger.
(d) From a dead Union soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do soldiers arrive as Jefferson watches?

2. Why does the 23rd Indiana have to march back on the first day of fighting?

3. What, to Lavery, is "pretty?"

4. How old was the boy when he left the orphanage?

5. Who leads the cavalry attack in Jefferson's recount?

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