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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. How did Ruth's mood change while working at the army camp?
(a) She began avoiding everyone.
(b) She would talk to no one but Isabel.
(c) She began ignoring Isabel again.
(d) She was more cheerful than Isabel had ever seen her.

2. How had the people who Ruth and Isabel found in the woods died?
(a) From a fever.
(b) From smallpox.
(c) From knife wounds.
(d) From gunshot wounds.

3. What did Curzon promise Isabel during their first real conversation after Isabel's arrival at the army camp?
(a) That he would stay away from cannonballs while digging the trench.
(b) That he would leave the army.
(c) That he would help her find Aberdeen.
(d) That he would not leave her and Ruth alone again.

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. How did Isabel and Ruth bury the bodies they found in the woods?
(a) With leaves.
(b) They did not have time to bury them.
(c) In a swamp.
(d) Underground.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Ruth do when she was nervous?

2. What did Mister Hallahan ask Isabel?

3. What are lobsterbacks?

4. How did Ruth greet the French soldier she recognized?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Aberdeen curious about Isabel favoring the British?

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

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

4. What was Curzon's manner like when he encountered Isabel and Ruth at his company's camp?

5. What kind of person was Miss Marrow?

6. What did Isabel mean when she said, "I am my own army" (126)?

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

8. Why was Isabel angered when she heard the minister's sermon at Bruton Parish Church?

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

10. Why did Isabel say that her purpose was to find Ruth some gingerbread?

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