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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What suddenly frightens Willy as she is about to milk the cow?
(a) The sound of a woman screaming.
(b) A bear.
(c) A wolf.
(d) The whine of a cannonball.

2. What does Willy take that she feels badly about?
(a) Her aunt's coat.
(b) Some food.
(c) A pair shoes.
(d) Her aunt's dress.

3. With whom is Uncle Jack serving?
(a) The Bremhaven Militia.
(b) The Stanford militia.
(c) No one.
(d) The Connecticut Line.

4. What does Captain Ivers say he needs Dan to do?
(a) Help him take some horses to sell to the British.
(b) Help him take some cows 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 Americans.

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

6. What does Willy learn that the neighbors thought about Willy?
(a) She was hiding in the woods.
(b) She had run off with the British.
(c) She had been kidnapped.
(d) She had been killed in the fighting.

7. What does Willy do?
(a) Turn and walk away.
(b) Blush.
(c) Tells him she is a girl.
(d) Slap the man.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Lucy beg Jordan not to do?
(a) Join the British army.
(b) Take Willy with him.
(c) Scout for the Americans.
(d) Take them off the farm and go South.

13. Why does Willy build a fire?
(a) To roast some potatoes.
(b) To roast some deer meat the old black man gave her.
(c) To get warm.
(d) To roast a rabbit she caught.

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

15. Who arrives while Willy is waiting for her mother?
(a) Mrs. Ledyard.
(b) Jordan.
(c) William Latham.
(d) Granny Hyde.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what village is the Fort located?

2. What does Willy say she wants to do when questioned by Betsy?

3. What does Willy say to the two black men?

4. Where does Willy find her mother after leaving the fort?

5. Who are Jordan and Lucy?

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