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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is hanged in the town square?
(a) Life Guard Hickey.
(b) Goldbuttons.
(c) No one.
(d) Inkstained.

2. Where does Isabel hope the soldiers will search?
(a) The flour bin.
(b) The pantry.
(c) The linen chest.
(d) The armoire.

3. Where does Robert lead Isabel and Ruth?
(a) To a farm outside of town.
(b) To the church.
(c) To an alehouse.
(d) To the docks.

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

5. How does Lockton manage to get out of his house without being seen?
(a) He gets out through a secret tunnel in the basement.
(b) He is wheeled out in a cheese crate.
(c) He dresses in woman's clothing and walks out with his wife and her aunt.
(d) He hides in a secret room in the house and does not leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose name is brought up as a potential assassination target?

2. Why does Madam Lockton send Isabel into a secretive meeting Mr. Lockton is conducting?

3. What happens immediately after the meeting of the Loyalists conspirators?

4. Where is the opening of the novel set?

5. To what has Madam Lockton taken a particular liking?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under what condition does Lockton agree to give the Loyalist money, and why does he stipulate that condition?

2. What worries Isabel about Ruth being around Mrs. Lockton regularly?

3. What does a soldier find when he searches the linen chest?

4. What happens the morning after Isabel made a report to Curzon?

5. What does Colonel Regen ask Isabel to do and how does he make it possible for her to travel about without being picked up?

6. Why do the soldiers remove the windows in the Lockton house?

7. What does Isabel struggle to do as she is working about the house?

8. How does Isabel get into a secretive meeting of the Loyalists, and what how does she conduct herself?

9. What does Isabel do to protect Ruth's innocence.

10. What happens when Isabel goes and talks to Colonel Regen?

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