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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is officially discovered a few days after Isabel talks to Colonel Regen?
(a) The plot to assassinate Washinton.
(b) A plot to sabotage efforts at a peaceful solution to independence.
(c) The plot to assassinate one of the writers of the Declaration of Independence.
(d) A plot to set fire to the docks of New York city.

2. Who is a new addition to the Loyalist's meeting at the Lockton?
(a) General Tarkington.
(b) The Mayor of New York.
(c) Aaron Burr.
(d) The chief constable of New York.

3. What is Mrs. Lockton's tendency towards her slaves?
(a) To try to win their loyalty with kindness.
(b) To beat them.
(c) To be very fair.
(d) To pay them for their work.

4. What happens immediately after the meeting of the Loyalists conspirators?
(a) Mr. Lockton goes to arrange passage on a ship back to England.
(b) Madam Locton is ill.
(c) Ruth has a seizure.
(d) Madam Lockton decides to sell Isabel.

5. Why does Madam Lockton send Isabel into a secretive meeting Mr. Lockton is conducting?
(a) To remind Mr. Lockton about his being under suspicion already.
(b) To serve refreshments.
(c) To learn what is going on in the meeting.
(d) To ask Mr. Lockton to come out of the meeting for a moment.

6. Why is Isabel more motivated than ever to gain information for Mr. Bellingham?
(a) Out of hatred for Madam Lockton.
(b) Out of fear for retaliations against Ruth and Isabel.
(c) To get Ruth's freedom.
(d) Out of spite for Madam Lockton.

7. What does Mrs. Lockton believe of Ruth?
(a) Ruth needs medical care.
(b) Ruth is having the seizures intentionally.
(c) Ruth should be sent back to Africa.
(d) Ruth is possessed by a devil.

8. What is Isabel to do at the Lockton home?
(a) Be a personal servant to the Lockton's daughter.
(b) Help the cook.
(c) Assist Becky.
(d) She does not yet know.

9. How does Mrs. Lockton amuse her friends?
(a) By having the twin slave boys do a tumbling act.
(b) By singing for them.
(c) By making Ruth dance like a monkey.
(d) By playing the harpsichord for them.

10. Who is Bellingham's slave?
(a) Curzon.
(b) He does not keep slaves.
(c) David.
(d) Curzon's entire family.

11. Where does Isabel go after she talks with Curzon?
(a) To the Lockton house.
(b) To the market.
(c) Back to the ship.
(d) To the church.

12. Under what stipulation does Lockton agree to hand over his money?
(a) That Lockton and his wife leave for England before the assassination takes place.
(b) A list of the conspirator's name written in the Mayor's handwriting.
(c) That Lockton be granted a knighthood.
(d) That Lockton be repaid double when the rebel is put down.

13. What does Isabel do as Ruth is falling asleep?
(a) Sneaks out to find Curzon.
(b) Falls asleep under the porch steps.
(c) Stays with Ruth.
(d) Tells Madam Lockton how Isabel feels about her beating Ruth.

14. Where does Becky obtain most of her gossipy news?
(a) The market.
(b) She is staunchly opposed to listening to gossip.
(c) From overhearing the Locktons talking after dinner.
(d) From the men she flirts with.

15. Where does Isabel go after the Locktons are asleep?
(a) To the study to find evidence to turn over to Bellingham.
(b) To talk to her sister Ruth about escaping.
(c) To the house where Curzon lives.
(d) Nowhere; she knows it's not yet time to do anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do the Loyalists want money?

2. What does Isabel have to decide after talking to Curzon?

3. Who are the Locktons?

4. What ill effect does Ruth suffer from falling in the kitchen?

5. What happens when the boat holding Isabel and Ruth docks in New York?

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