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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willy promise to Betsy that she will do?
(a) Teach Betsy to read.
(b) Find her mother.
(c) Find a way to free Betsy.
(d) Work hard.

2. What do the two black men urge Lucy and Willy to do?
(a) Leave the area with the British.
(b) Head south towards Virginia.
(c) Go with them to talk to the black families in the area.
(d) Ask the British colonel for compensation for the cow.

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

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

5. Who is Captain Ivers?
(a) Betsy's brother.
(b) Betsy's owner.
(c) Jack's brother.
(d) A British officer who accosts Willy.

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

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

8. Who are the two men that Willy and her mother encounter?
(a) Willy's father and uncle.
(b) Members of the Third New Jersey Volunteers.
(c) Willy's father and his good friend.
(d) The neighbors to the South and West.

9. Who passes by Willy's house?
(a) American soldiers.
(b) A group of slaves.
(c) Indians.
(d) British soldiers.

10. About what does Lucy debate as she is walking?
(a) If the British are right.
(b) If her mother is still alive.
(c) Whether she wants to claim to be British or American.
(d) Whether she should go into New York City.

11. What does Willy think about instead of her father?
(a) The smells around her.
(b) The cow.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The horse.

12. Where is Willy determined to go?
(a) To the harbor.
(b) To the Ledyard home.
(c) To retrieve her father's body.
(d) To find her mother.

13. What angers Willy the next day?
(a) She is made to put on a dress.
(b) Her uncle is beat for taking in Willy.
(c) Captain Ivers hints that he will claim her as property.
(d) She is made to scrub floors.

14. What does Willy say is not a good idea to her aunt?
(a) Going to New York.
(b) Going back to her family's farm.
(c) Staying with them.
(d) Changing into a dress.

15. Who tells Willy to get out of the fort?
(a) Her father.
(b) A British soldier.
(c) William Latham.
(d) An American soldier.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has told Willy's uncle about New York?

3. Who is Colonel Ledyard?

4. Why can't Willy do one of her daily chores today?

5. Who comes in the house and demands to know who Willy is?

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