My Brother Sam is Dead (Ch. 7-9)

True or False: Mr. Heron yells at Tim for not delivering the letter.

• True
• False

What do Mother and Father argue about in Chapter VII?

• money
• letters
• Tim
• Mr. Heron

True or false: Father wants to send a letter back to Sam, but mother decides not to.

• True 
• False

Why do Tim and Father go to Verplancks Point? 

• To trade cattle for guns
• To sell them to the British
• To sell cattle to Patriots
• To trade cattle for supplies for the tavern

Tim's father sells cattle so he can purchase ____.

• a new Brown Bess
• pigs
• shoes for Sam
• supplies for the tavern

The cowboys who harass Tim and Father don't want the cattle to be sold to _____.

• Patriots
• Lobsterbacks
• Farmers
• Indians

The men who come to the rescue are ____.

• loyalists
• cattle thieves 
• farmers
• lobsterbacks

Tim's cousin Ezekiel asks Tim if he's a loyalist. What is Tim's response?

• "Of course. Aren't you?"
• "Of course not. Are you?"
• "I don't know."
• "I guess so. Only sometimes I'm not sure."

When they leave Verplancks Point for the Platt's house, Father decides to ____.

• Take the exact same road back because it's shorter and it's about to snow.
• Take the longer way home because there are no cowboys.

Why does Father ride ahead of Tim on the way home?

• to see if Tim can handle himself
• he goes ahead to buy food
• to scout for cowboys
• to find shelter from the snow