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

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

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

4. Who is Goldbuttons?
(a) A Loyalist who gives information to the Patriots when he is arrested.
(b) One of the officers in charge of arresting Loyalists.
(c) The judge who approved the search and seizure of Loyalist properties.
(d) One of Lockton's accomplices.

5. To what has Madam Lockton taken a particular liking?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Isabel.
(d) Ruth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Robert lead Isabel and Ruth?

2. What astounds Isabel about what she hears from Lockton's guests?

3. What do soldiers ask to search?

4. What does Madam Lockton plan to use as her personal entertainment in her house?

5. What proves harder than expected for the Loyalist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Becky Berry tell Isabel about Ruth?

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

3. What worries Isabel about Ruth being around Mrs. Lockton regularly?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Under what condition does Lockton agree to give the Loyalist money, and why does he stipulate that condition?

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