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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Jordan happy about his horse?
(a) The horse is no longer lame.
(b) The horse is over a bout of colic.
(c) The horse is pregnant.
(d) The black men did not find it.

2. What does Willy wish on this particular day?
(a) She could go to the school that the white children attend.
(b) Her mother would allow her to go to town to meet her father.
(c) Her father were home.
(d) She did not have to work in the family garden.

3. What does Willy say is not a good idea to her aunt?
(a) Going to New York.
(b) Going back to her family's farm.
(c) Staying with them.
(d) Changing into a dress.

4. Why does the soldier that grabs Willy laugh?
(a) He does not laugh.
(b) He thinks she is crazy to be searching for her mother.
(c) He thinks she is using potatoes to look like a girl.
(d) She is so skinny.

5. What angers Willy the next day?
(a) Captain Ivers hints that he will claim her as property.
(b) She is made to put on a dress.
(c) She is made to scrub floors.
(d) Her uncle is beat for taking in Willy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Willy to get out of the fort?

2. What does Willy do immediately after her visitor leaves?

3. What does Jordan have to avoid when he goes to warn the Americans?

4. What is Willy's most vivid memory of "that day"?

5. What suddenly frightens Willy as she is about to milk the cow?

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