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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Betsy say Willy resembles?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Willy's father.
(c) Betsy's mother.
(d) Betsy's grandmother.

2. Where is Jordan at the moment?
(a) Drilling with an American regiment.
(b) In town seeing a doctor.
(c) Planting the fields.
(d) Fishing on the bay.

3. Where does Willy think her mother might be taken?
(a) Boston.
(b) England.
(c) Bermuda.
(d) New York.

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

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

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

7. What does Willy discover when she scouts the area?
(a) The horse has been stolen.
(b) Someone has buried her father.
(c) There are only a few people left in the village.
(d) The bay is filled with British ships.

8. What does Willy encounter as she is sailing toward New York?
(a) Rough water.
(b) A thunderstorm.
(c) A British raiding party.
(d) An American raiding party.

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

10. Why can't Willy do one of her daily chores today?
(a) Because of the fighting between the Americans and British.
(b) The horses are too restless with all the cannon sounds.
(c) There are no needles in the house.
(d) The Ledyards have left for New York.

11. Who is Colonel Ledyard?
(a) An elderly man who used to be in the British army.
(b) The Freeman's former owner.
(c) The leader of the American regiment passing by the Freeman home.
(d) The leader of the British regiment passing by the Freeman home.

12. Jordan warns the Americans about _____________.
(a) The British offloading cannons.
(b) Tainted meat.
(c) Livestock being stolen.
(d) British ships in the harbor.

13. How old is Willy?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one option Willy thinks about but discards?

2. What do the two black men say about the Americans?

3. How does Willy distract her captives?

4. What is Willy's most vivid memory of "that day"?

5. What does Willy's mother tell her to do instead of watching who's passing by the house?

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