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

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

3. What does Isabel vow when she sees Ruth crying?
(a) To give Ruth half of her food.
(b) To try to sneak in at night and be with Ruth.
(c) To get her away from the Locktons.
(d) To find a way to get Ruth medicine.

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

5. Who has already been bribed to turn a blind eye to an assassin?
(a) The under-Captain of security for the rebel forces.
(b) One of Jefferson's bodyguards.
(c) The Captain of security for the rebel forces.
(d) A member of the Life Guards.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Isabel naively believe when she talks to Curzon late at night?

3. What does Isabel whisper outside the window at Bellingham's home?

4. For what does one member of the conspiracy at Lockton's request Lockton's money?

5. Why is Isabel punished by Madam Lockton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Isabel terrified when Lockton is released from jail, and why did she need not worry?

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

3. What does Becky Berry tell Isabel about Ruth?

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

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

6. What happens when the boat carrying Isabel and Ruth and their new owners lands in New York?

7. How does Isabel get into a secretive meeting of the Loyalists, and what how does she conduct herself?

8. What is Isabel's assigned role in the Lockton household?

9. Why has Miss Mary Finch's nephew come to Rhode Island?

10. Why does Isabel ask the pastor for work?

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