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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. Why does Isabel get to spend afternoons reading the newspaper?
(a) She sneaks off under the stairs.
(b) Madam Lockton is ill and requires Isabel to read to her.
(c) She is nursing Lady Seymour back to health.
(d) Madam Lockton is grateful to her for saving Lady Seymour's life.

2. What does Isabel see when she is branded?
(a) The devil with Mrs. Lockton's face.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Ruth crying for her.
(d) Stars and the ghosts of her dead parents.

3. Who comes to the cell window when Isabel calls for Curzon?
(a) Colonel Regen.
(b) No one.
(c) Curzon.
(d) Dibdin.

4. What does Isabel try to do once a day?
(a) Go through the papers in the study to try to find where Ruth is.
(b) Pray for Ruth.
(c) Take some little bit of food to hide for her flight.
(d) Sneak off to the prison.

5. How has Isabel's situation improved?
(a) Lady Seymour has promised to help Isabel find Ruth.
(b) Better food and a comfortable bed at Lady Seymour's home.
(c) Lady Seymour has promised Isabel freedom when Isabel turns 18.
(d) Lady Seymour has promised Isabel freedom when the war is over.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Mary and Hannah argue?

2. How does Isabel respond to Becky's news?

3. What does Lady Seymour hire a seamstress to do?

4. What does Isabel realize as she sees the person in #125?

5. Why does the prison guard allow Isabel in to see the prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Madam Lockton order Isabel to do when the British invade New York City?

2. What news does Captain Morse give Isabel to give the prisoners hope?

3. Why is there more work for Isabel after British invade New York City?

4. Describe Isabel's experience at the book store.

5. What is Isabel startled to hear about Curzon?

6. What happens on Sunday that has Madam Lockton elated?

7. Who comes to the window of the prison when Isabel calls for Curzon?

8. What does Isabel take to the prisoners, and why is she allowed to do so?

9. What is Isabel's life like after returning to the Lockton household?

10. How does Isabel learn about Curzon being in prison and about the conditions of the prison?

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