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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. Why does Willy fear for her father's life?
(a) He is fighting with Washington's regiment.
(b) He is on his way home and the path is near the conflict.
(c) He does not have his paperwork attesting to his freedom.
(d) Shots are being fired toward the bay.

2. How will Willy get where she is going?
(a) The wagon.
(b) The horse.
(c) Walking.
(d) Her father's boat.

3. Who does Willy see when she wakes from her faint?
(a) Colonel Ledyard.
(b) William.
(c) A British soldier.
(d) Her father.

4. What does the black man do after that?
(a) Apologize to Lucy.
(b) Grab Willy's breasts.
(c) Give Willy a gold coin.
(d) Grab Willy's arm.

5. Who tells Willy to gather up her possessions and come to Granny's home?
(a) Granny Hyde.
(b) Willy's mother.
(c) Mrs. Ledyard.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Betsy say Willy resembles?

2. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

3. What do the two black men say about the Americans?

4. What does Captain Ivers order Willy to do?

5. What does Captain Ivers say to his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Willy and her aunt Betsy discuss concerning New York?

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

4. What does Willy do after leaving the fort?

5. What does Lucy ask of her husband? How does he respond?

6. What happens when a British soldier finds Willy?

7. Who is the boy whom Willy helps? What do they do?

8. How does the Freeman family obtain a cow, and what does it symbolize to Lucy?

9. Who is Granny Hyde, and what does she tell Willy?

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

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