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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charley notice about the black people he sees?
(a) How quiet they are
(b) How black they are
(c) How shy they are
(d) How poor they are

2. Which of the following is not something Charley desires if something bad should happen to him?
(a) Have clean morals
(b) Be in love with a strange girl
(c) Be with God
(d) Think uninfected thoughts

3. Which of the following is not part of the uniform Charley is issued?
(a) Hat
(b) Black pants
(c) Epaulets
(d) Gray socks

4. What happens to the person Charley decides to follow?
(a) He is beheaded by a bayonet
(b) He is captured
(c) He is shot in the back and falls dead
(d) He is blown up by a cannon blast

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

6. What is Charley's last name?
(a) Godfrey
(b) Gotchell
(c) Goddard
(d) Goodacre

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

8. What is Charley's view of the Union cause?
(a) He agrees with some of it
(b) He has no opinion
(c) It is right
(d) He agrees with most of it

9. What is Charley's opinion of the other soldiers?
(a) He thinks it is too early to tell
(b) He is afraid of them
(c) He does not like them
(d) He is warming up to them

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

11. What does Charley actually see as he looks toward the battlefield?
(a) Lanterns and candles
(b) Horses
(c) Nurses
(d) Flag bearers

12. Which of the following did the Rebs not leave behind?
(a) Guns
(b) Cook pots
(c) Food
(d) Fires

13. How soon will Charley and his comrades be expected to go back into battle?
(a) Later today
(b) A couple of days
(c) Next week
(d) Tomorrow

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

15. Charley wonders how the men can line up and wait __________________________.
(a) for commands
(b) for so long
(c) for daybreak
(d) to be slaughtered

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Charley decide to follow?

2. After the initial excitement, Charley finds camp to be _______________.

3. What did local families do the previous day?

4. What do the soldiers do when they run out of bullets for practice?

5. What does Charley feel like on the train?

(see the answer keys)

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