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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. Why are Willy's parents free?
(a) They saved money and bought their freedom.
(b) They were never slaves.
(c) Jordan has agreed to fight with the Americans.
(d) Their slave owner died.

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

3. What does Willy wish on this particular day?
(a) Her mother would allow her to go to town to meet her father.
(b) She did not have to work in the family garden.
(c) She could go to the school that the white children attend.
(d) Her father were home.

4. What does Willy's mother say about Willy's dress?
(a) She has to patch the sleeve.
(b) She needs to fix the hem.
(c) She has almost outgrown the dress.
(d) She has to change from it into her milking britches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the British do when Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

2. What suddenly frightens Willy as she is about to milk the cow?

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

4. What does Willy say to the two black men?

5. Where is Jordan at the moment?

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