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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. Who pleads for the girls' welfare?
(a) Pastor Weeks.
(b) The tavern owner.
(c) Miss Finch's gardener.
(d) The baker's wife.

2. Why is Isabel confounded?
(a) Why Mr. Lockton leaves his wife behind.
(b) Madam Lockton is being nice to her and Ruth.
(c) Why Madam Lockton is so verbal about her loyalties.
(d) She does not understand why Regan or Bellingham have not held up their promise.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What war seems to be brewing?

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

3. What does Mr. Lockton order Isabel to do?

4. How does Mrs. Lockton amuse her friends?

5. What is the purpose of the term "ad astra"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Curzon tell Isabel about the Locktons, and what promise does he make?

5. What does Isabel do the night of the first Loyalist meeting after the household members have gone to sleep?

6. What does Colonel Regen ask Isabel to do and how does he make it possible for her to travel about without being picked up?

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

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

9. What does Isabel learn when she is serving a meeting of some of the Loyalists at the Lockton home?

10. What are Isabel and Ruth doing in the funeral procession, and what is important about the day for them?

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