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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Willy's mother say about Willy's dress?
(a) She needs to fix the hem.
(b) She has almost outgrown the dress.
(c) She has to patch the sleeve.
(d) She has to change from it into her milking britches.

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

6. What does the black man do after that?
(a) Give Willy a gold coin.
(b) Grab Willy's arm.
(c) Grab Willy's breasts.
(d) Apologize to Lucy.

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

8. One does one of the black men ask Willy?
(a) If she wants to join the army.
(b) If she wants to go with them.
(c) If she has a husband.
(d) If she is a boy.

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

10. 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.

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

12. What does Captain Ivers say to his wife?
(a) To fix him some food.
(b) To find him a pen and paper.
(c) To look at Willy's papers.
(d) To be quiet.

13. What does Willy's mother say is safer for Jordan than fighting?
(a) Waiting on the American generals.
(b) Being a slave.
(c) Being a messenger for the American officers.
(d) Fishing on the bay.

14. What does the cow represent to Lucy Freeman?
(a) Food.
(b) Legitimacy.
(c) Freedom and ownership.
(d) Stability.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what village is the Fort located?

2. Who are Jordan and Lucy?

3. What does Colonel Ledyard do that is not required of him?

4. Why does Willy sit down at home to wait?

5. What does Jordan have to avoid when he goes to warn the Americans?

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