Chapter 1 Pages 1 - 15

1. What kind of chores did Chris usually do?
a) plant seeds, gather nuts, and tend the horses
b) fetch water, slop the hogs, and clean out the barn
c) shuck beans, whittle, and braid corn-shuck bridles

2. Chris lived ---------.
a) in Chattanooga, Tennessee
b) in Bridgeport, Alabama
c) in Caroliny
d) on Walden's Ridge

3. Chris hated the ------ soldiers.
a) Northern
b) Southern

4. Chris worked hard so he could have ----.
a) a fringed buckskin shirt
b) a hunting rifle
c) a horse of his own
d) a vegetable garden

5. Chris sat by the spring and waited for Silas so they could -----.
a) go squirrel hunting
b) fetch the cows
c) go fishing

6. Jesse Webb was headed to Chattanooga to ------.
a) get supplies for his farm
b) buy rifles
c) talk to his son in prison
d) trade squirrels for powder and lead

7. General Bragg surrounded three sides of Chattanooga to -------.
a) stop supplies from coming in
b) kill all Feds leaving the town
c) bargain with the Feds

8. The Feds had to get their supplies in Bridgeport -------.
a) sixty miles away
b) just on the other side of the Tennessee River
c) a day's walk from Chattanooga

9. Silas said the Feds were eating -----.
a) 'possum
b) rats
c) dogs
d) 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."?
a) The men will have scars.
b) Many of the men coming home from war with be wounded.
c) War changes men for the worst.

11. Chris and Silas each got ---- squirrels.
a) 4
b) 2
c) 3
d) 8

12. Silas wanted the squirrels that were -----.
a) bushy tailed
b) gray
c) plump
d) shot in the left eye

13. What did Chris see when he reached home?
a) Yankee soldiers were in his yard.
b) His house was on fire.
c) His brother and father were hoeing the corn.
d) His mother was fighting off a bear.

14. A good title for this chapter could be -------.
a) The Battle of Chickamauga
b) Chattanooga Raid
c) Squirrel Hunting
d) The Preacher Man



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1. (c)
2. (d)
3. (a)
4. (a)
5. (a)
6. (c)
7. (a)
8. (a)
9. (b)
10. (c)
11. (a)
12. (d)
13. (a)
14. (c)