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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. What does Willy's mother say about Willy's dress?
(a) She has almost outgrown the dress.
(b) She has to patch the sleeve.
(c) She has to change from it into her milking britches.
(d) She needs to fix the hem.

2. Why can't Willy do one of her daily chores today?
(a) The horses are too restless with all the cannon sounds.
(b) There are no needles in the house.
(c) The Ledyards have left for New York.
(d) Because of the fighting between the Americans and British.

3. 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.

4. Where does Willy go after milking the cow?
(a) Back to the house.
(b) To the bay to search for her father.
(c) To a creek to bathe.
(d) To her friend's house about a mile away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy tell two black men to take with them?

2. One does one of the black men ask Willy?

3. What military fort is near Willy's house?

4. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

5. Why does Jordan want Willy to go with him to the woods near the fort?

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