Chapter 7

Choose one of the following questions to answer in a complete paragraph (minimum of 3 sentences). Note which question you are responding to.

1. How do the neighbors help the Creightons after their barn burns?

2. Who is Dan Lawrence and what sad news does he bring to the Creightons?

3. What is the purpose of Ross Milton's open letter in the newspaper?

4. What does Jenny do with the Bible?

Chapter 6

Choose one of the following questions to answer in a complete paragraph (minimum of 3 sentences). Note which question you are responding to.

1. Why does Mrs. Creighton ask her husband to visit the Burdows?

2. How does Jethro's life change after his father's attack?

3. How does Jethro feel when Jenny takes Shad's letter to read in private? Does he have a right to feel that way?

4. How do the outlaws finally "punish" the Creightons? Do you think the outlaws, themselves, will be punished?

Chapter 5

Choose one of the following questions and answer in a complete paragraph (minimum of 3 sentences). Note which question you are responding to.

1. What causes Ellen's headache? How is it cured?

2. Why does Jethro's father send him to Newton? Why do you think he doesn't go himself?

3. Why does the old man stop Jethro on the way to Newton? Do you think Jethro is rude to him?

4. What trouble does Jethro run into in town?

5. What does Ross Milton give Jethro? How does Jethro like the gift?

Chapter 4

Choose one of the following questions and answer in a complete paragraph (minimum of 3 sentences). Note which question you are responding to.

1. What was customary for teachers to do in those days that we do not do today?

2. What happened at Fort Henry?

3. Why wouldn't Pa let Jenny marry Shad?

4. What is an abolitionist?

5. What did Jethro and Shad talk about when Jethro spent the evening at Shad's home?

Chapter 3

Choose one of the following questions and answer in a complete paragraph (minimum of 3 sentences). Note the question you are responding to.

1.How does Bill feel about the war?

2. What was upsetting Bill the most?

3. What caused Bil to leave home and what were his plans?

Chapter 2

Choose one of the following questions and respond in a complete paragraph (minimum of 3 sentences). Note which question you are responding to.

1. What position do the Creightons and Wilse take in the North/South struggle? Why?

2. What did the Southerners want?

3. What news did Shadrach bring back?

4. How did Wilse Graham describe Abe Lincoln in this war?

5. What roles did Congress and Lincoln have regarding the war at that time?

Across Five Aprils

Choose one of the following questions and answer in paragraph form. Your paragraph must consist of at least 3 sentences. Make sure you indicate which question you are answering.

Chapter 1

1. Why do you think that in the 1800's a woman's beauty was short-lived?
2. Describe what Ellen's life had been like for the past 30 years.
3. How had Destiny marked Jethro? What made him so special?
4. What did Irene Hunt mean when she wrote, "Adults were usually troubled"?
5. Who was Shadrach Yale?