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

2. Who was Isabel's "old friend" (175) at the Continental camp that she hoped would help them?
(a) Walter.
(b) Aberdeen.
(c) Curzon.
(d) Ebeneezer.

3. How did the men in Curzon's company treat Ruth and Isabel?
(a) With respect and warmth.
(b) With forced politeness.
(c) With cruelty and disrespect.
(d) They mostly ignored Ruth and Isabel.

4. Why did Curzon support the Patriot cause?
(a) Because the Patriots did not believe in slavery.
(b) Because the Patriots had promised him his freedom.
(c) Because he believed the Patriots were fighting for freedom.
(d) Because he did not want to pay British taxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Curzon know Ebeneezer Woodruff?

2. How did Isabel learn that Curzon was lying when he said he had been hired as a blacksmith?

3. What are lobsterbacks?

4. Why did Widow Hallahan choose Isabel to work in the tavern?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was Isabel cheered by Kate and Elspeth's frustration at the extra work they had to do after the storm?

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

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

8. How did Isabel's feelings towards Aberdeen change by the time she encountered him hiding in the bushes?

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

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

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