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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do people make temporary housing in Canvas Town?
(a) Stacking piles of wood.
(b) Stretching sailcloth.
(c) They just sleep out in the open.
(d) Stacking bales of straw.

2. What do most people say about the female prisoners on the ships?
(a) There are none.
(b) They were not brought back from England.
(c) They will be the last to be released.
(d) They were left in Virginia.

3. What does the woman want in exchange for more information about Willy's mother?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Willy's necklace.
(d) A job at the Queen's Head.

4. Whom does Willy go to see for help?
(a) Mr. Goodrich.
(b) No one.
(c) The local constable.
(d) The Ledyards.

5. What does Horace say when Willy tells him goodbye?
(a) He wishes she were a boy.
(b) He wants to go with her.
(c) He wants her to marry him.
(d) He is glad she is a girl.

6. What does Willy start doing once everyone knows she is a girl?
(a) Going to church.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Taking advantage of Horace's protectiveness.
(d) Wearing female clothing again.

7. Who comes in when Willy and Horace are about to eat?
(a) Two British soldiers.
(b) The cook.
(c) Two American soldiers.
(d) Mr. Fraunces.

8. What sort of rumors are flying about in Chapter 11?
(a) King George is coming to America.
(b) The war is about to end.
(c) The British have won the war.
(d) George Washington is dead.

9. How many years have passed since the battle that kills Willy's father?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

10. Where does Aunt Betsy take Willy?
(a) To a small shack in the woods.
(b) To the stables.
(c) To the cellar where her mother is.
(d) To a small shack on the river.

11. What does Mr. Goodrich urge Willy to do?
(a) Contact him if she finds herself in trouble.
(b) Take Horace for safety.
(c) Go to her mother immediately.
(d) Stay in New York since her mother will probably be dead before she gets to her.

12. Why can't Willy get a doctor to look at her mother?
(a) Captain Ivers has forbidden it.
(b) No doctor would attend a black person.
(c) The area doctor is killed in the war.
(d) The closest doctor is fifty miles away.

13. Why is Willy hesitant about pursuing the information Mr. Goodrich brings?
(a) Captain Ivers might try to claim she is his slave.
(b) She has finally finished mourning and does not want to lose her mother again.
(c) Virginia is such a long distance.
(d) She does not know how to prevent the sale of the farm.

14. What does Horace insist upon after learning about Willy being a girl?
(a) Willy wearing a dress.
(b) Helping her cook.
(c) Sleeping in separate areas.
(d) Helping her with the heavy work.

15. Who brings Lucy to Stratton?
(a) Dan Arabus.
(b) Jack.
(c) Captain Ivers.
(d) Mr. Goodrich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willy say about her mother?

2. In what month is there word that the British have officially lost the war?

3. Who is Elizur Goodrich?

4. What is the young boy who offers Willy a ride carrying?

5. What college do Willy and Mr. Goodrich pass on the way to the courthouse?

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