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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. What was a redoubt?
(a) A type of kettle.
(b) A fort occupied by riflemen.
(c) A type of weapon.
(d) A trench.

2. Which of these jobs at the laundry belonged to Isabel?
(a) Mending clothes.
(b) Chopping firewood.
(c) Ironing clothes.
(d) Making deliveries.

3. What confused Isabel the morning that the army moved out of Williamsburg?
(a) Aberdeen did not come to pick up Ruth.
(b) Neither Widow Hallahan, nor Kate, nor Elspeth were at the laundry.
(c) Mister Hallahan was at the laundry.
(d) Kate and Elspeth came earlier than usual.

4. What kind of condition was Aberdeen in when Ruth unknowingly led Isabel to him?
(a) He was starting to doubt the British cause.
(b) He seemed strong and confident.
(c) He seemed weak and frightened.
(d) He was hungry and his clothes were torn.

5. Why did Isabel tell Ruth that she had ruined everything?
(a) Because she thought Ruth disturbed the seeds she had been saving.
(b) Because she thought Ruth burned their free papers.
(c) Because Ruth ran away and Isabel had been worried.
(d) Because she thought Ruth let someone in who burned their free papers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the soldiers of Curzon's company think that Isabel and Ruth had been separated from Curzon?

2. What was Aberdeen's real job in Williamsburg?

3. While in WIlliamsburg, where did Isabel learn news of the war?

4. Why did Isabel think it was a bad idea for Aberdeen and Ruth to marry?

5. In WIlliamsburg, who was Ruth friendly with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Mister Hallahan not pay Isabel for her work in the tavern?

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

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

7. Why did Isabel decide that she and Ruth could not travel with the women of the army?

8. What kind of person was Miss Marrow?

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

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

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