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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. Why does Granny read recipes to Ringo and Bayard?
(a) To entertain them.
(b) To teach them.
(c) To distract them.
(d) To put them to sleep.

2. While playing Civil War, who does Ringo want to play?
(a) Colonel Dick.
(b) The Union General.
(c) The Confederate General.
(d) Colonel Sartoris.

3. Where do Granny and Bayard end up living?
(a) A make-shift shack.
(b) Joby's cabin.
(c) In the woods.
(d) An abandoned farmhouse.

4. What do Ringo and Bayard steal after being ambushed?
(a) A wagon.
(b) A horse.
(c) Food.
(d) Guns.

5. As the Union soldiers leave Sartoris' burning house, how does Granny respond?
(a) She cries.
(b) She curses them.
(c) She shoots at them.
(d) She is indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Granny hide Ringo and Bayard?

2. Drusilla compares the fighting Confederates and Union on the railroad to ______.

3. In "Ambuscade" Bayard believes the front lines are in ______.

4. Ringo asks Bayard who he thinks Granny dreamed about. Bayard says ______.

5. Loosh argues that he is as just as _______.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Loosh feel justified in taking the silver?

2. Is Ringo more than a slave boy? How is he an equal or still inferior?

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

4. What are the fleeing slaves representing?

5. How has Bayard matured since "Ambuscade"? What is the cause of this?

6. Why does Bayard believe that "we are being set free"?

7. Does Bayard understand the Civil War? How does he see it?

8. Why does Granny become relieved at one point when the Union soldiers are searching her house?

9. Why is the Sartoris family burying their silver?

10. How have roles been reversed or changed in "Raid"?

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