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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. Where did Isabel find Aberdeen while working at the army camp?
(a) Working at a butcher's shop.
(b) Hiding in a bush.
(c) In the horse corrals.
(d) In Yorktown.

2. How did Isabel learn that Curzon was lying when he said he had been hired as a blacksmith?
(a) Because Aberdeen told her.
(b) Because Curzon told her.
(c) Because none of the blacksmiths in Williamsburg knew him.
(d) Because she caught him working somewhere else.

3. Why did Isabel and Curzon decide to part ways in Williamburg?
(a) Because they disagreed about the Patriot cause.
(b) Because Isabel loved Curzon but Curzon did not love Isabel.
(c) Because they disagreed about Ruth's future.
(d) Because Curzon needed to go away to fight in the army.

4. Why did Isabel think it was a bad idea for Aberdeen and Ruth to marry?
(a) Because no one should marry in the midst of a war.
(b) Because they were too young.
(c) Because she did not trust Aberdeen to care for her sister.
(d) Because she did not want her sister to marry a spy.

5. Why could Aberdeen not convince Ruth to run away with him?
(a) She was afraid of returning to the woods.
(b) She did not want to marry him.
(c) She refused to leave without Isabel.
(d) She did not understand what he was asking of her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter XXVII, why did Isabel decide it was best to find the British army?

2. Why was Isabel starting to favor the Patriot cause while working at the army camp?

3. In Chapter XXIX, what did Ruth think that Isabel was planning to do to her?

4. Why did Isabel decided not to linger in the French camp?

5. What did Aberdeen say he was going to do after the war was over?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Isabel tell Widow Hallahan that Ruth had been shoveling donkey dung?

2. Why did Ruth's worry about Aberdeen increase as time went on?

3. Why were many of the men in Curzon's company from Rhode Island?

4. What did Isabel mean when she said, "We had been forced back into war for our liberty" (151)?

5. What did Isabel do in preparation to leave the laundry in Williamsburg?

6. Why was the British soldier in the woods deserting his army?

7. Why did Isabel think that Ruth burned the free papers?

8. How did Missus Serafina's advice help Isabel mend her relationship with Ruth?

9. Why did Isabel believe it was foolish for Curzon to support the Patriots?

10. Why did Isabel not tell Ruth the truth about Aberdeen?

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