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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Colonel Ledyard?
(a) The Freeman's former owner.
(b) The leader of the British regiment passing by the Freeman home.
(c) The leader of the American regiment passing by the Freeman home.
(d) An elderly man who used to be in the British army.

2. With whom is Uncle Jack serving?
(a) No one.
(b) The Bremhaven Militia.
(c) The Stanford militia.
(d) The Connecticut Line.

3. How does Lucy get the cow?
(a) The narrator does not say how she came to have the cow.
(b) She buys it with their life's savings.
(c) In payment for Lucy nursing a child back to health.
(d) She saves the calf's life when it is abandoned.

4. What does Willy do when she wakes the next morning?
(a) Cries and goes back to sleep.
(b) Gets on her horse to go get her father's body.
(c) Feeds the chickens and makes her mother breakfast.
(d) Calls out for her mother.

5. How does Willy get into the fort?
(a) By making the horse jump the small outer wall.
(b) Through the back gate.
(c) She does not go to the fort.
(d) Holding onto a rope that her father pulls up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Willy's parents free?

2. What does Jordan say to one of the black soldiers?

3. What does Willy do?

4. What do the two men say to Willy and her mother?

5. Why does Willy sit down at home to wait?

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