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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 are the Locktons?
(a) The couple who buy Isabel and Ruth.
(b) The couple who pay for Miss Finch's funeral.
(c) The mayor and his wife who want to buy Isabel and Ruth.
(d) The owners of the tavern who protest the sale of the girls.

2. What is Isabel to do at the Lockton home?
(a) Assist Becky.
(b) Help the cook.
(c) Be a personal servant to the Lockton's daughter.
(d) She does not yet know.

3. Under what stipulation does Lockton agree to hand over his money?
(a) That Lockton be granted a knighthood.
(b) A list of the conspirator's name written in the Mayor's handwriting.
(c) That Lockton be repaid double when the rebel is put down.
(d) That Lockton and his wife leave for England before the assassination takes place.

4. What does Mrs. Lockton believe of Ruth?
(a) Ruth is having the seizures intentionally.
(b) Ruth needs medical care.
(c) Ruth should be sent back to Africa.
(d) Ruth is possessed by a devil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what illness does Ruth suffer?

2. What happens immediately after the meeting of the Loyalists conspirators?

3. What ill effect does Ruth suffer from falling in the kitchen?

4. Why is Isabel confounded?

5. Why is Isabel more motivated than ever to gain information for Mr. Bellingham?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Mr. Lockton flee his home, and what does he do when his wife tries to go with him?

7. What does Isabel struggle to do as she is working about the house?

8. Why does Isabel ask the pastor for work?

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

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

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