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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do girls in the towns give the soldiers?
(a) Bibles
(b) Chicken dinners
(c) Kisses
(d) Sweets and hankies

2. When do Charley and his mother think the war will be over?
(a) By summer
(b) By winter
(c) By spring
(d) By autumn

3. How old does Charley say he is when he reaches Fort Snelling?
(a) 21
(b) 18
(c) 19
(d) 20

4. Where does Charley walk to in order to sign up for the army?
(a) Fort Bragg
(b) Fort McKinley
(c) Fort Snelling
(d) Fort Walton

5. What do the soldiers have to march over as they head out to the battlefield?
(a) Dead soldiers
(b) Fences
(c) Ravines
(d) Boulders

6. What is the date when the novel begins?
(a) June, 1965
(b) June, 1951
(c) June, 1861
(d) June, 1916

7. What do the people do when the train passes through towns?
(a) Cheer and wave
(b) Boo and hiss
(c) Throw tomatoes
(d) Sing

8. What is the name of Charley's brother?
(a) Orren
(b) Owen
(c) Clay
(d) Otis

9. Charley does not want to be stuck like a drummer boy or _______________.
(a) flag bearer
(b) cook
(c) secretary
(d) runner

10. Charley is asked to hit a target at _____________ yards.
(a) 100
(b) 500
(c) 400
(d) 250

11. How is an officer's horse killed?
(a) Gun shot
(b) Bayonet
(c) Cannon shot
(d) Knife

12. What are the lumps on the ground that Charley sees on the battlefield?
(a) Horses
(b) Dead bodies
(c) Boulders
(d) Knapsacks

13. What is Charley's state of mind at this point in the battle?
(a) Shock and disbelief
(b) Cowardly and scared
(c) Calm and calculating
(d) Angry and aggressive

14. What are Charley's rations that night?
(a) Cheese and berries
(b) Bacon and coffee
(c) Dried bread and berries
(d) Dried bread and raw salt pork

15. Where does Charley finally take cover?
(a) A chicken coop
(b) An old barn
(c) A grove of maple trees
(d) An abandoned house

Short Answer Questions

1. What did local families do the previous day?

2. What does Charley think of as he looks out at the battlefield?

3. Who does Charley figure the person in #48 is?

4. When officers tell the men they did a good job, Charley knows it is ________________.

5. What does Charley not note about the dead soldiers?

(see the answer keys)

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