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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. What does Granny offer to Colonel Dick?
(a) Milk.
(b) Money.
(c) A mule.
(d) Weapons.

2. What was Granny's disturbing dream at the beginning of "Retreat"?
(a) The Union wins the war.
(b) Someone finds their silver.
(c) Someone takes Bayard.
(d) Someone burns her house.

3. How do members of regiments expel their colonel?
(a) They vote.
(b) They stage a riot.
(c) They can't.
(d) They tie him up and leave him behind.

4. Drusilla compares the fighting Confederates and Union on the railroad to ______.
(a) Mythical gods.
(b) A train wreck.
(c) Dogs and cats.
(d) Iron knights.

5. Why can't Sartoris stay with his mother-in-law?
(a) She doesn't have food to feed them all.
(b) He can't stand her.
(c) The Yankees are looking for him.
(d) There is a new battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Sartoris family use for ink?

2. How do the slaves respond to Loosh explaining the Union is coming to free them?

3. Why does Sartoris return home at the beginning of "The Unvanquished"?

4. How long do Ringo and Bayard wait on the road?

5. Why does Granny pray after the soldiers leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are slaves able to be free in "Retreat"? Is it true freedom?

2. What are the fleeing slaves representing?

3. How does "Raid" paint women?

4. In "Raid," which is more important to people: freedom or personal sentiment? How and why?

5. Why is the Sartoris family fleeing their town?

6. How easy is it to gauge humor in "Retreat"? Why?

7. Why is Granny particularly paranoid about the chest of silver in "Retreat"?

8. Why isn't Uncle Buck fighting with the army?

9. Is the war being waged violent in Mississippi in "Retreat"?

10. Why do the Bayard and Ringo keep an eye on Loosh?

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