Choose the correct answer for each question.

1. What kind of chores did Chris usually do?

   1.   ?    plant seeds, gather nuts, and tend the horses
   2.   ?    fetch water, slop the hogs, and clean out the barn
   3.   ?    shuck beans, whittle, and braid corn-shuck bridles

2. Chris lived ---------.

   1.   ?    in Chattanooga, Tennessee
   2.   ?    in Bridgeport, Alabama
   3.   ?    in Caroliny
   4.   ?    on Walden's Ridge

3. Chris hated the ------ soldiers.

   1.   ?    Northern
   2.   ?    Southern

4. Chris worked hard so he could have ----.

   1.   ?    a fringed buckskin shirt
   2.   ?    a hunting rifle
   3.   ?    a horse of his own
   4.   ?    a vegetable garden

5. Chris sat by the spring and waited for Silas so they could -----.

   1.   ?    go squirrel hunting
   2.   ?    fetch the cows
   3.   ?    go fishing

6. Jesse Webb was headed to Chattanooga to ------.

   1.   ?    get supplies for his farm
   2.   ?    buy rifles
   3.   ?    talk to his son in prison
   4.   ?    trade squirrels for powder and lead

7. General Bragg surrounded three sides of Chattanooga to -------.

   1.   ?    stop supplies from coming in
   2.   ?    kill all Feds leaving the town
   3.   ?    bargain with the Feds

8. The Feds had to get their supplies in Bridgeport -------.

   1.   ?    sixty miles away
   2.   ?    just on the other side of the Tennessee River
   3.   ?    a day's walk from Chattanooga

9. Silas said the Feds were eating -----.

   1.   ?    'possum
   2.   ?    rats
   3.   ?    dogs
   4.   ?    ground hogs

10. What did the preacher mean when he said, "them that live to come home will have the mark of the beast upon them."?

    1.   ?    The men will have scars.
    2.   ?    Many of the men coming home from war with be wounded.
    3.   ?    War changes men for the worst.

11. Chris and Silas each got ---- squirrels.

    1.   ?    4
    2.   ?    2
    3.   ?    3
    4.   ?    8

12. Silas wanted the squirrels that were -----.

    1.   ?    bushy tailed
    2.   ?    gray
    3.   ?    plump
    4.   ?    shot in the left eye

13. What did Chris see when he reached home?

    1.   ?    Yankee soldiers were in his yard.
    2.   ?    His house was on fire.
    3.   ?    His brother and father were hoeing the corn.
    4.   ?    His mother was fighting off a bear.

14. A good title for this chapter could be -------.

    1.   ?    The Battle of Chickamauga
    2.   ?    Chattanooga Raid
    3.   ?    Squirrel Hunting
    4.   ?    The Preacher Man