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Serialized
Story Guide for Teachers, Students and Families
By Antonette
Bomentre-Walter and Chris Yatchyshyn
Answers
to Questions in the Guide
Chapter 5 - The Times That
Try Men's Souls
Recalling the Facts
1. England
2. taxes
3. The Plain Truth
4. Common Sense
5. He joined the army
6. aide-de-camp to Gen.
Nathaniel Greene
7. Fort Lee, New Jersey
8. Crisis 1
9. Common Sense
Comprehension Questions
1. Concerns such as paying taxes to the
English with nothing in return, wanting
well-qualified people to run the local
governments, and disliking the English laws that
were prohibiting free trade in the colonies and
costing them money.
2. Thomas Paine; Benjamin Franklin followed
the next September.
3. In a corner of his father's bookshop,
crying softly.
4. His pen. That's how he was most effective -
how he could make a difference.
5. When he saw how heartbroken the soldiers
felt after the terrible retreat of the
Continental Army in December 1776 at Ft. Lee, New
Jersey.
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