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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 does Lucy beg Jordan not to do?
(a) Join the British army.
(b) Scout for the Americans.
(c) Take Willy with him.
(d) Take them off the farm and go South.

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

3. What word does Willy hear when she gets back to the horse?
(a) Freeze.
(b) Spy.
(c) Git.
(d) Boy.

4. What do the British do when Colonel Ledyard surrenders?
(a) Stabs him.
(b) Lets the Americans go after they drop their arms.
(c) Puts him in the stocks.
(d) Hangs him.

5. Where is Jordan at the moment?
(a) Fishing on the bay.
(b) In town seeing a doctor.
(c) Drilling with an American regiment.
(d) Planting the fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does William mistake Willy for a boy?

2. Who passes by Willy's house?

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

4. How does Jordan get into the fort?

5. What do the two black men urge Lucy and Willy to do?

(see the answer key)

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