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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Colonel Ledyard do that is not required of him?
(a) Joins the American forces.
(b) Frees the entire Freeman family.
(c) Frees all his slaves.
(d) Works as a spy for the British.

2. What does Captain Ivers ask Willy when he first sees her?
(a) If she is a runaway.
(b) If she is interested in joining the army.
(c) If she is with the British forces.
(d) If she can cook.

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

4. What military fort is near Willy's house?
(a) Fort Annapolis.
(b) Fort Lee.
(c) Fort Griswold.
(d) Fort Sumpter.

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

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

7. What is Willy's most vivid memory of "that day"?
(a) Men screaming.
(b) An owl hooting.
(c) The dog howling.
(d) The sun flashing on the bayonets.

8. What is in Baker's Cove?
(a) A small group of American soldiers.
(b) Jordan's boat.
(c) Willy's aunt and uncle.
(d) Some of the neighbors.

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

10. According to Willy, where are her freedom papers?
(a) In the cabin back home.
(b) Her father had them on his person.
(c) In her pack.
(d) She does not know.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Jordan and Lucy?

2. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

3. What does Willy think about instead of her father?

4. What does Willy encounter as she is sailing toward New York?

5. Whom does Betsy say Willy resembles?

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