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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were Isabel and Ruth walking up and down the main street of Williamsburg?
(a) They were looking for Curzon.
(b) They were looking for Aberdeen.
(c) They were looking for the laundry.
(d) They were looking for food.

2. How did Curzon know Ebeneezer Woodruff?
(a) They had fought together years before.
(b) They had worked on a plantation together.
(c) Ebeneezer was Curzon's former master.
(d) They worked together as blacksmiths.

3. What did Mister Hallahan ask Isabel?
(a) Where she learned to cook.
(b) If she liked working at the laundry.
(c) Where she was hired from.
(d) What her sister's name was.

4. What did Isabel find missing from her haversack?
(a) Ruth's doll.
(b) Her knife.
(c) Her and Ruth's free papers.
(d) Her seeds.

5. What led Isabel to believe that Mister Hallahan had destroyed their free papers?
(a) Isabel overheard Mister Hallahan talking with Widow Hallahan about burning the papers.
(b) Ruth told Isabel that Mister Hallahan had done it.
(c) He often had ink on his hands, and there had been ink stains on the scraps of their free papers.
(d) The muddy boot prints matched his boots exactly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Aberdeen buy Ruth?

2. Who were the characters referring to when they talked about "His Excellency" (124)?

3. Why did Isabel tell Ruth that she had ruined everything?

4. How were the soldiers by the milestone distracted from Isabel's movement in the woods?

5. What weapon did Isabel bring to defend herself and Ruth when leaving Williamburg?

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