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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 suddenly frightens Willy as she is about to milk the cow?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A bear.
(c) The sound of a woman screaming.
(d) The whine of a cannonball.

2. Why does Willy sit down at home to wait?
(a) Their is still a lot of fighting going on.
(b) She figures her mother will be home soon.
(c) Her mother left her a note telling to wait for her.
(d) She is tired.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Willy determined to go?

2. What does Willy help a young boy do?

3. Who does Willy see when she wakes from her faint?

4. What does Willy promise to Betsy that she will do?

5. How will Willy get where she is going?

Short Essay Questions

1. What angers Willy the following day?

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

3. How does Willy escape the American raiding party?

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

5. Describe the first encounter between Willy and the Ivers.

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

7. How does Willy travel to her aunt and uncle's home?

8. What does Willy tell her aunt she wants to do, and how does the aunt respond?

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

10. Why is it lucky that Willy's uncle Jack is at home?

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