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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Freeman the cow kept?
(a) In the barn right next to the house.
(b) In what Willy calls a salt marsh.
(c) In the pasture that lies fallow.
(d) It wanders around the farm where it wants to go.

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

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

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

5. In what village is the Fort located?
(a) Amherst.
(b) Groton.
(c) Oakmont.
(d) Cleary.

6. What do the two men say to Willy and her mother?
(a) Their fish were confiscated by the Americans.
(b) They would like some milk from the cow.
(c) Their fish were confiscated by the British.
(d) They did not know the cow belonged to a black family.

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

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

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

10. Why does Betsy cry when Willy is talking with her?
(a) Over what has happened to Lucy.
(b) Because they will probably have to leave their home.
(c) Because Willy is so sad.
(d) She does not cry.

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

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

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

14. 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) Gets on her horse to go get her father's body.
(d) Cries and goes back to sleep.

15. How does Willy get into the fort?
(a) She does not go to the fort.
(b) Through the back gate.
(c) Holding onto a rope that her father pulls up.
(d) By making the horse jump the small outer wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Willy's parents free?

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

3. What does Lucy beg Jordan not to do?

4. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

5. What does Willy say is not a good idea to her aunt?

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