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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the two men that Willy and her mother encounter?
(a) Willy's father and his good friend.
(b) The neighbors to the South and West.
(c) Willy's father and uncle.
(d) Members of the Third New Jersey Volunteers.

2. How does Lucy get the cow?
(a) The narrator does not say how she came to have the cow.
(b) She saves the calf's life when it is abandoned.
(c) She buys it with their life's savings.
(d) In payment for Lucy nursing a child back to health.

3. 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.

4. How old is Willy?
(a) 15.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

5. What does the black man do after that?
(a) Give Willy a gold coin.
(b) Grab Willy's breasts.
(c) Grab Willy's arm.
(d) Apologize to Lucy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willy wish on this particular day?

2. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

3. What do the two black men say about the Americans?

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

5. Why do Willy and her mother run toward the cow?

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