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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 the cow represent to Lucy Freeman?
(a) Food.
(b) Freedom and ownership.
(c) Legitimacy.
(d) Stability.

2. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?
(a) He is imprisoned.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He is eventually killed.
(d) He is let go.

3. What does Lucy tell two black men to take with them?
(a) The cow's milk.
(b) Some greens.
(c) Some mushrooms.
(d) The cow meat.

4. One does one of the black men ask Willy?
(a) If she wants to go with them.
(b) If she wants to join the army.
(c) If she has a husband.
(d) If she is a boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willy's mother say is safer for Jordan than fighting?

2. Who passes by Willy's house?

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

4. Why is Jordan happy about his horse?

5. What is one of Willy's daily jobs?

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