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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Willy's daily jobs?
(a) To take the mild to the Ledyard family.
(b) To mend the family's clothes.
(c) To check the fences.
(d) To clean out the barn.

2. What does Willy drop on the beach near her boat?
(a) The coat.
(b) The dress.
(c) The shoes.
(d) The message from Captain Ivers.

3. What does Willy suddenly think might be possible?
(a) Her aunt will not want to take Willy in.
(b) Her aunt and uncle no longer live where they used to.
(c) Her mother is dead.
(d) Her mother went to Willy's aunt and uncle's home.

4. What does Willy learn about her mother?
(a) She went to retrieve her husband's body.
(b) She is dead.
(c) The British took her.
(d) She went to the Ledyard home.

5. What does Willy do immediately after her visitor leaves?
(a) Goes to the barn to feed the chickens.
(b) Lies down and cries.
(c) Packs up her belongings.
(d) Makes something to eat.

6. Where is Freeman the cow kept?
(a) In the barn right next to the house.
(b) In the pasture that lies fallow.
(c) In what Willy calls a salt marsh.
(d) It wanders around the farm where it wants to go.

7. How will Willy get where she is going?
(a) Her father's boat.
(b) The horse.
(c) Walking.
(d) The wagon.

8. Why does Jordan want Willy to go with him to the woods near the fort?
(a) To witness how awful war is.
(b) To bring the horse back home.
(c) To take a messag to Colonel Ledyard.
(d) To hold the horse while Jordan runs to the fort to give a message.

9. 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 is a boy.
(d) If she has a husband.

10. Why do Willy and her mother run toward the cow?
(a) They want to figure out why the cow is not giving any milk.
(b) The cow is in the safest area of the farm.
(c) They hear the cow moo.
(d) They hear some shrieking noises.

11. Who tells Willy to gather up her possessions and come to Granny's home?
(a) Willy's mother.
(b) Mrs. Ledyard.
(c) No one.
(d) Granny Hyde.

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

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

14. Why is Uncle Jack at home?
(a) His owner needs him right now.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is on furlough.
(d) He is wounded.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whom does Betsy say Willy resembles?

4. Who tells Willy she cannot stay with her aunt and uncle?

5. Where is Jordan at the moment?

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