Drummer Boy of Shiloh

Joby finds himself...

• on a ridge overlooking the devastation of the Battle of Shiloh.

• on a train back home to his family in Tennessee.

• marching from a terrible battle at Owl Creek.

• amidst 40,000 sleeping troops in a peach orchard.

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Why is Joby unable to go back to sleep at the beginning of the story?

• Peach blossoms keep falling on his drum.

• He is worried about the battle.

• The other soldiers are talking.

• He is waiting to talk to the general.

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"The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" takes place during

• WWII

• WWI

• the Revolutionary War

• the Civil War

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What is Shiloh?

• the site of a Civil War battle in 1862; now a national military park in southwest Tennesse

• the name of a dog in a famous book

• the setting of the story, set in Alabama

• the name of a river that flows through Mississippi

The night before the battle, Joby weeps because...

• he misses his mother and father.

• the army troops make fun of him.

• he has no way to protect himself in battle.

• he does not really know how to play the drum.

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Which piece of evidence best supports WHY Joby is worried about the battle?

• After that, he turned the drum on its side, where its great lunar face peered at him whenever he opened his eyes.

• Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadows, forty thousand men, exhausted by nervous expectation, unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily askew in their uniforms.

• For with the careless bones of the young men harvested by night and bindled around campfires were the similarly strewn steel bones of their rifles, with bayonets fixed like eternal lightning lost in the orchard grass.

• Me, thought the boy, I got only a drum, two sticks to beat it, and no shield

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The army's mood on the night before the battle might be best described as:

• nervous and worried

• tired and depressed.

• ecstatic and lit.

• happy and cheerful.

When Bradbury writes, "...perhaps they might go away...and not notice him lying small here, no more than a toy himself," he means to convey...

• ...that Joby is thinking about hiding and not going with the army the next day

• ...that Joby feels childish and silly.

• ...that Joby wants to play hide-and-seek with the soldiers.

• ...that Joby wants to lead the army into battle the next day.

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The general at first mistakes Joby for...

• a reporter covering the war.

• a soldier crying before the battle.

• a wounded soldier moaning in pain.

• his son who is too young to fight.

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We know that the character of the General represents a father figure for Joby because...

• ...the General is actually Joby's father.

• ...the General is the same age as Joby's real dad.

• ...the General smells like all fathers should.

• ...the General said that Joby reminded him of his son.

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