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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isabel have to decide after talking to Curzon?
(a) If she can protect her sister or if they have to flee immediately.
(b) If the reward Curzon offers her is worth the risk.
(c) If Curzon is speaking on behalf of Mr. Bellingham.
(d) If Curzon is telling them the truth.

2. Where does Isabel hope the soldiers will search?
(a) The armoire.
(b) The pantry.
(c) The flour bin.
(d) The linen chest.

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

4. What does Isabel do after everyone in the household is asleep?
(a) Goes to find Curzon.
(b) Steals the list of accomplices.
(c) Steals some food to hide away for an escape.
(d) Steals one of Madam Lockton's scarves to keep for the future.

5. For what does one member of the conspiracy at Lockton's request Lockton's money?
(a) To train some spies.
(b) To hire an assassin.
(c) To create some phamplets to disseminate Loyalist ideas.
(d) To hire mercenaries.

6. What does Curzon explain about Master Lockton?
(a) He is suspected of supplying weapons to Indians.
(b) He is suspected of smuggling slaves into New York.
(c) He is suspected of harboring fugitive slaves.
(d) He is suspected of supporting loyalists.

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

8. What astounds Isabel about what she hears from Lockton's guests?
(a) That they would engage in embezzlement.
(b) That they would want English rule.
(c) That they would jeopardize their families.
(d) That they speak freely in front of her.

9. Who are Isabel and Ruth?
(a) Cousins who are at Mary Finch's funeral.
(b) Two daughters of the local inn keeper.
(c) Mary Finch's nieces.
(d) The slaves of Mary Finch.

10. What do the New York couple who are in town for business do?
(a) Try to convince Robert to set Isabel and Ruth free.
(b) File a legal petition on behalf of Isabel and Ruth.
(c) Buy Isabel and Ruth.
(d) Donate money to the local rebel movement.

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

12. What is the purpose of the term "ad astra"?
(a) It is a code to allow Isabel to pass through the streets without being retained.
(b) It is the Loyalist password to their planning meetings.
(c) It is part of a poem that Curzon quotes to Isabel.
(d) It is the Patriot's password for special planning meetings.

13. Who is Colonel Regen?
(a) A Patriot farmer turned soldier.
(b) The warden at the prison.
(c) The Patriot leader.
(d) A Loyalist farmer turned soldier.

14. Why is Isabel punished by Madam Lockton?
(a) For talking to Curzon.
(b) For taking too long at the watering hole.
(c) For trying to protect Ruth.
(d) For giggling at the harbor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Isabel?

2. For what do the Loyalists want money?

3. Why is Ruth crying one afternoon?

4. What does Mrs. Lockton believe of Ruth?

5. Who is hanged in the town square?

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