My Brother Sam is Dead

1. Sam was happily excited about the fighting that had broken out near Lexington and Concord between the Minutemen and the British.

• True

• False

Both Sam and his father hated British soldiers and the English King

• True

• False

Sam and Father argued over the wisdom of fighting a war in order to gain freedom

• true

• false

Sam liked to boast to his father and mother about his accomplishments in college debating

• true

• false

Tom Warrups, the last Indian in Redding, sometimes allowed Sam to sleep in his hut when the boy ran

away from a bad fight with Father

• true

• false

Tim and Sam had been taught that daydreaming, boasting, getting drunk, cursing, and being with girls

were sins

• true

• false

Sam planned to meet his company the next day and then go to Massachusetts to fight the Lobsterbacks

• true

• false

Sam was sorry he told Tim about his plans to take the gun and go to war

• true

• false

Father had seen the horrors of war and he had tried to forbid Sam from getting involved in the fight against the British

• true

• false

1. After Sam left, Father put his head down on the table and cried.

• true

• false