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

2. In WIlliamsburg, who was Ruth friendly with?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Only the animals.
(c) Everyone but Isabel.
(d) Only people she knew well.

3. What did Aberdeen say he was going to do after the war was over?
(a) Help free more slaves.
(b) Go to Jamacia.
(c) Go to Scotland.
(d) Start a family.

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

5. In Chapter XXVII, why did Isabel decide it was best to find the British army?
(a) Because they were less likely to sell her and Ruth back into slavery.
(b) Because they paid better.
(c) So they could be spies.
(d) To find Aberdeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a redoubt?

2. What confused Isabel the morning that the army moved out of Williamsburg?

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

4. Why did Curzon support the Patriot cause?

5. How had the people who Ruth and Isabel found in the woods died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Isabel think digging the trench was a bad idea?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Isabel's narration during her fake kiss with Curzon indicate that she may have had romantic feelings towards him?

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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