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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 through 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willy's mother tell her to do instead of watching who's passing by the house?
(a) Gather eggs.
(b) Weed the garden.
(c) Feed the chickens.
(d) Milk the cow.

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

3. Where does Willy go after milking the cow?
(a) To the bay to search for her father.
(b) Back to the house.
(c) To her friend's house about a mile away.
(d) To a creek to bathe.

4. When does Willy get off the wagon?
(a) Once they are in New York.
(b) When they arrive at Horace's destination.
(c) Once they are on the ferry.
(d) When Horace pulls up to a boarding house and tells her to get out.

5. What does Captain Ivers say he needs Dan to do?
(a) Help him take some cows to sell to the Americans.
(b) Deliver a message to a man near the beach.
(c) Help him take some horses to sell to the Americans.
(d) Help him take some horses to sell to the British.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Willy say she has no money to get to New York?

2. Why does the soldier that grabs Willy laugh?

3. What does Willy realize about Horace as they are talking?

4. Who passes by Willy's house?

5. Where is Willy determined to go?

(see the answer key)

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