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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 tells Willy she cannot stay with her aunt and uncle?
(a) Mrs. Ivers.
(b) Captain Ivers.
(c) Willy's uncle.
(d) Willy's aunt.

2. Why does Willy fear for her father's life?
(a) He is fighting with Washington's regiment.
(b) Shots are being fired toward the bay.
(c) He does not have his paperwork attesting to his freedom.
(d) He is on his way home and the path is near the conflict.

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

4. What do the two men say to Willy and her mother?
(a) They did not know the cow belonged to a black family.
(b) Their fish were confiscated by the Americans.
(c) Their fish were confiscated by the British.
(d) They would like some milk from the cow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Willy build a fire?

2. What does Willy promise to Betsy that she will do?

3. What does Willy's mother say about Willy's dress?

4. What does Willy learn that the neighbors thought about Willy?

5. What does Willy say is not a good idea to her aunt?

(see the answer key)

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