The War Between Us Vocabulary Quiz

Secede means to...

• to break away

• to do well

• to leave

• to win

A tignon is a

• a feather

• type of head covering worn by people of color

• a bandana

• a hat

Slavery is defined as ...

• people disliking other people

• a bad idea

• a 400 year institution

• The owning of a person by another person.

To abolish means to ...

• end or stop forever

• force out

• get rid of

• to yell at

If a limb is amputated it has been _____.

• lost to gangrene

• removed by cutting

• ripped off by a bear

• killed forever

The people of Grand Tower knew that Delphine was from another place because she spoke with a different __________.

• language

• voice

• dialect

• body part

To mutilate a body part means to...

• tear into shreds

• burn, shoot or cut

• cut off

• To destroy by cutting off a needed part

Another way of saying that an action is useless is to say it is____.

• not needed

• futile

• dumb

• unnecessary

Delphine and Tilly gave _____ to the soldiers at Camp Defiance.

• succor

• food

• help

• hope

Her eyes were focused or ______ at the sight of the soldier's condition.

• sad

• shocked

• transfixed

• stuck