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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willy say to the two black men?
(a) She wishes the British would leave the area.
(b) She did not know the British had black soldiers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She thinks the British are mean.

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

3. Where does Willy decide she should go?
(a) To Stratford.
(b) To Philadelphia.
(c) To New York.
(d) To Washington.

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

5. What does Captain Ivers order Willy to do?
(a) Put on a dress.
(b) Leave the house.
(c) Cook him a meal.
(d) Give him her paper attesting to her freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willy learn that the neighbors thought about Willy?

2. What does Willy do immediately after her visitor leaves?

3. Why do Willy and her mother run toward the cow?

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

5. What is Willy's real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Willy slip away from the Ivers' household? Where does she go?

2. What does Willy's father say about seeing the British ships in the bay?

3. How does Willy describe her memory of the day before the battle at Fort Griswold?

4. How does Willy get into the Fort?

5. What angers Willy the following day?

6. What questions does Captain Ivers ask Willy? What worries Willy about his questions?

7. Why are Jack and his family no longer slaves?

8. Describe the debate Willy has in her head concerning being an American versus a British subject.

9. What does Willy do after leaving the fort?

10. What are some of the choices Willy thinks about concerning what to do next?

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