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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters VII - X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What help does Isabel ask of the pastor?
(a) In finding a place to live.
(b) In finding work.
(c) In finding a way to get to Pennsylvania.
(d) In locating two other siblings.

2. Where does Isabel run to visit?
(a) Her best friend, Iris.
(b) Her mother's grave.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her grandfather's grave.

3. Where does Madam Lockton send Isabel?
(a) To the bakery.
(b) To a solicitor's office.
(c) To the water hole.
(d) To fetch her father.

4. What does Isabel naively believe when she talks to Curzon late at night?
(a) That the Locktons will be arrested that night.
(b) That she can trust Curzon.
(c) That her life would be better in an independent America.
(d) That she and Ruth will be freed that night.

5. What does Miss Finch's nephew say about Miss Finch's will?
(a) Miss Finch changed her will leaving Ruth and Isabel to her nephew.
(b) It is being contested.
(c) It cannot be found.
(d) It says nothing about setting Isabel and Ruth free.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isabel learn was in Madam Lockton's underwear chest?

2. What do soldiers ask to search?

3. Where is the opening of the novel set?

4. Who pleads for the girls' welfare?

5. What does Isabel whisper outside the window at Bellingham's home?

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