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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. For what do the Loyalists want money?
(a) To bribe farmers.
(b) To buy weapons.
(c) To hire assassins.
(d) To hire riot mongers.

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

3. About what do Lockton's guests speak openly?
(a) Their getting slaves illegally.
(b) Their Loyalists ties.
(c) Their desire for independence from England.
(d) The various illegal financial activities in which they engage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a new addition to the Loyalist's meeting at the Lockton?

2. Who pleads for the girls' welfare?

3. Why is Ruth crying one afternoon?

4. Where does Isabel run to visit?

5. Where does Becky obtain most of her gossipy news?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Isabel feel about Ruth's assigned role in the household?

2. Why do the soldiers remove the windows in the Lockton house?

3. How does Ruth act about the fall she has in the kitchen, and what does Ruth not seem to understand?

4. What does Madam Lockton convince the soldiers to do and how does she seems about everything else being searched?

5. What does Isabel do to protect Ruth's innocence.

6. Why does Isabel ask the pastor for work?

7. Who does Isabel take the list she stole to and why does she choose that person?

8. What does Miss Finch's nephew do with Isabel and Ruth and who tries to intervene?

9. What happens the morning after Isabel made a report to Curzon?

10. What does a soldier find when he searches the linen chest?

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