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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Prentiss do for Landry at the very beginning of the chapter?
(a) Massage his feet.
(b) Give him water.
(c) Sing to him.
(d) Dance for him.

2. What does George learn about the way his son died?
(a) He died of cancer.
(b) He was a deserter.
(c) He killed himself.
(d) He died in a car accident.

3. What does Landry know about Prentiss?
(a) Prentiss will leave him soon.
(b) Prentiss was their mother's favorite.
(c) Prentiss wants to get married.
(d) The two will never be separated.

4. Why does Prentiss really want George to be quiet?
(a) People are tracking Prentiss.
(b) His ears hurt.
(c) He needs to trap food and George is scaring it away.
(d) It will upset Landry if he is not quiet.

5. Why are the townspeople turning against the Walkers?
(a) Because Sarah is a unionist.
(b) Because they are poor.
(c) Because Prentiss has a record with the law.
(d) Because George is employing Black men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of George's neighbors used to own slaves?

2. Whose idea is it for George to ask Caleb for help in the fields?

3. How is Caleb wounded?

4. Who comes back to the Walker house that shocks everyone in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 4, what does George say he has decided to keep?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Isabelle do when George tells her Caleb has died?

2. Why is August mad at Caleb in Chapter 8?

3. Why did the soldiers cut Caleb's face?

4. What does Landry have a great appreciation for?

5. Why did Caleb sign up to serve in the war in the first place?

6. Why does Prentiss desperately want George to be quiet in the woods in Chapter 1?

7. Why are Prentiss and Landry suspicious of George's offer at first?

8. What did Landry once try to take from Isabelle's clothesline, and how does Isabelle respond?

9. What happens to Prentiss's and Landry's mother?

10. Why is Caleb ashamed of his war service?

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