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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the boat holding Isabel and Ruth docks in New York?
(a) The Locktons set Isabel and Ruth free.
(b) Isabel and Ruth are sold again.
(c) Isabel and Ruth are forgotten about.
(d) The Locktons come under suspicion.

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

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

4. What does Ruth seem to not understand?
(a) That Madam Lockton has threatened to sell Ruth.
(b) That Isabel is doing all she can to protect Ruth.
(c) That Ruth needs to hide if she feesl a seizure coming on.
(d) That Ruth is ill, not possessed by a devil.

5. How does Mrs. Lockton dress Ruth?
(a) In elaborate costumes of all sorts.
(b) Like a monkey.
(c) In soldier uniforms.
(d) She makes her run around with no clothing.

6. Where does Madam Lockton send Isabel?
(a) To the water hole.
(b) To a solicitor's office.
(c) To fetch her father.
(d) To the bakery.

7. What does Miss Finch's nephew say about Miss Finch's will?
(a) It is being contested.
(b) It says nothing about setting Isabel and Ruth free.
(c) Miss Finch changed her will leaving Ruth and Isabel to her nephew.
(d) It cannot be found.

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

9. Who does Lockton put the blame upon for the search of his home?
(a) The Mayor of New York.
(b) Isabel.
(c) Inkstained.
(d) His wife.

10. Why does Mr. Lockton insist Madam Lockton stay behind?
(a) To keep the house and contents safe.
(b) To pack their valuables and ready for a move to England.
(c) Mr. Lockton wants her to go with him but she is not home when he escapes.
(d) To gather word of where the Patriots are looking.

11. What do the Loyalists think would be a consequence of the assassination?
(a) It would weaken the training of the rebel army.
(b) It would send a message to the rebels that their actions are not tolerated.
(c) The rebellion would collapse.
(d) It would cause the other leaders of the rebellion to live in fear.

12. What is significant about the day the novel opens?
(a) It is Miss Mary Finch's funeral.
(b) It is the funeral of a slave named Isabel.
(c) It is Christmas.
(d) It is the wedding of Mary Finch's niece.

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

14. What does Mr. Lockton do when Madam Lockton protests his decision about her?
(a) Shoots her.
(b) Agrees to let her come with him.
(c) Ties her to the bed with orders for the servants to release her after he is gone.
(d) Punches her in the face.

15. What does Madam Lockton say she will do if Ruth has another seizure?
(a) Take her to a specialist in Boston.
(b) Send Ruth back to Africa.
(c) Beat her.
(d) Sell her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is officially discovered a few days after Isabel talks to Colonel Regen?

2. Who is hanged in the town square?

3. Who is Inkstained?

4. What does Isabel decide she must do?

5. What does Madam Lockton convince the soldiers to do?

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