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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What message do the British send to the fort?
(a) They do not send a note.
(b) An offer to let the women and children leave the fort.
(c) A demand for their British prisoners.
(d) A demand for their surrender.

2. Why can't Willy do one of her daily chores today?
(a) There are no needles in the house.
(b) Because of the fighting between the Americans and British.
(c) The horses are too restless with all the cannon sounds.
(d) The Ledyards have left for New York.

3. What does Willy help a young boy do?
(a) Make cartridges for the muskets.
(b) Take water around to the soldiers.
(c) Tear up sheets for bandages.
(d) Make food for the soldiers.

4. What do the two black men urge Lucy and Willy to do?
(a) Ask the British colonel for compensation for the cow.
(b) Head south towards Virginia.
(c) Leave the area with the British.
(d) Go with them to talk to the black families in the area.

5. Who are the two men that Willy and her mother encounter?
(a) The neighbors to the South and West.
(b) Members of the Third New Jersey Volunteers.
(c) Willy's father and his good friend.
(d) Willy's father and uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what village is the Fort located?

2. What does Willy wish on this particular day?

3. Why does William mistake Willy for a boy?

4. Where is Freeman the cow kept?

5. Why are Willy's parents free?

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