Sample Study Guide
Sample Study Guide
A Land Remembered
by Patrick Smith
Chapter 4
Tobias and Zech are headed in the woods to a place Tobias thinks there are deer to hunt. Zech becomes very inquisitive about some birds, Carolina parakeets, he sees along the way. Tobias tells Zech about why these birds are no longer found (endangered) in the swamps of Georgia. Folks used to kill them for meat. They were an
“easy kill” because _________________________________.
Instead of seeing and killing a deer to bring home for food, they see a ____________ bull coming into the clearing! This is much better because ____________________. They got the bull back to the homestead without the buzzards getting the bull’s meat. How?_____________. They used every ounce of the bull. Explain some ways they used parts of its carcass, like its tail, hooves, and leg and rib bones ________________________________.
Emma wants her son, Zech, to be a strong boy so she is planning to fix him a special breakfast. Describe the breakfast. ___________________________________________________
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Chapter 5
A stranger named Henry Addler approaches Tobias while he is chopping wood. He ends up being a marshal commissioned by the governor. He tells Tobias he has plans for him. Those plans are to be part of the Cow Cavalry. Explain what this is all about:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tobias is gone for about ___ weeks or ___ days. He is even paid for this job. $__ per day = $___ total While Tobias was away from the homestead, Emma and Zech have some trouble one night with some bears. It appears that the bears were trying to get to the oxen, Buck and Tuck. So they have to have a plan of attack. Explain just what they did to survive that night.
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How many days did it take Tobias to walk back from the Georgia border? ______. He brings back with him a whip that he used to drive the cattle to Georgia. This whip, if used correctly, could take off a rattler’s head from _____ feet away. It is a weapon that even Zech learned to master. Tobias’s wife, Emma, makes him a homecoming meal of ________________________________________
Chapter 6
In the beginning of this chapter, Tobias and Zech hunt rabbits and squirrels to kill for food using the weapon ______________. Captain Graham came to get Tobias to help in the war in the way of cutting logs to make forts. Tobias is not happy with this and can’t refuse because it is under marshal law. He could be __________ right there on the spot if he refuses to go and help. The forts will be used by __________________ soldiers in fighting off the Federals who are out to split Florida’s land into 2 states and stop the supply lines of food and ammunition going to the Confederate soldiers.
While Tobias was gone building forts, Emma and Zech were invaded, but not harmed, by 15 Confederate deserters. They not only killed one of the oxen, but ate it right there in front of Zech and Emma! They stole the other ox and then burned down their homestead! What horrible men they were. Tobias then decides that he will move his family to a place ______________.
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