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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What college do Willy and Mr. Goodrich pass on the way to the courthouse?
(a) Merrymount.
(b) Amherst.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

3. What does Willy do when she is sent to buy sweets for the tavern?
(a) Shakes the bag and eats the sugar that falls off the pastries.
(b) Asks to buy the tarts that are malformed for a discount.
(c) Studies over how the sweets are made.
(d) Buys herself something also.

4. What does Willy fear Mr. Fraunces will do with her?
(a) Make her a slave.
(b) Turn her over to the British.
(c) Give her back to Captain Ivers.
(d) Turn her into the New York militia.

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

6. What is Mr. Fraunces' response to Willy's tale about her past?
(a) He says he does not believe her.
(b) He offers her a job at the tavern.
(c) He says she should start wearing dresses.
(d) He says she should go back to her family's farm.

7. Where does Horace suggest they get a meal?
(a) On the wharf.
(b) In a inn that sailors frequent.
(c) At the boarding house where he stays.
(d) In the kitchen at the Queen's Head.

8. What is the woman like whom Willy and Horace first encounter in Canvas Town?
(a) She is very old.
(b) She is a nun.
(c) She is young and pretty.
(d) She has been brutally beaten.

9. What does Willy decide to pretend?
(a) She can return home whenever she wants.
(b) She is a boy.
(c) Her father is still alive.
(d) Her family lives in the city.

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

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

12. For whom does Horace work?
(a) General Cornwallis.
(b) Captain Ivers.
(c) Sam Fraunces.
(d) Willy's uncle Jack.

13. Why does Willy end up telling Mr. Fraunces the entire truth of her past?
(a) She decides she trusts him.
(b) She gets too entangled in her lies.
(c) He forces her to at knifepoint.
(d) She feels hopeless.

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

15. Where does Willy think Mr. Fraunces' loyalties might lie?
(a) With slave owners such as Captain Ivers.
(b) She has no idea.
(c) With the Americans.
(d) With the British.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace say is the key to telling lies?

2. What are in abundance at Canvas Town?

3. Why does Willy reveal that she's a girl to Horace?

4. Why does Mr. Fraunces pay Willy and Horace?

5. What does Uncle Jack say when he sees Willy?

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