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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 through 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horace suggest that Willy say about having no money?
(a) She was sick and had to pay for medicine.
(b) She gave it all to her father who beat it out of her.
(c) She got drunk, fell asleep, and was robbed.
(d) Her mother demanded it for food for her brothers.

2. What is one option Willy thinks about but discards?
(a) Joining the American army pretending to be a boy.
(b) Staying and taking care of the farm.
(c) Going to the Ledyard home.
(d) Traveling south with many other former slaves.

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

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

5. What does Willy do when she wakes the next morning?
(a) Cries and goes back to sleep.
(b) Gets on her horse to go get her father's body.
(c) Feeds the chickens and makes her mother breakfast.
(d) Calls out for her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people make temporary housing in Canvas Town?

2. Why does Mr. Fraunces pay Willy and Horace?

3. Who gives Willy a ride at one point on her travel?

4. Why does Jordan want Willy to go with him to the woods near the fort?

5. What does Willy learn from the woman she first encounters in Canvas Town?

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