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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 is not a good idea to her aunt?
(a) Going back to her family's farm.
(b) Staying with them.
(c) Changing into a dress.
(d) Going to New York.

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

3. How does Willy distract her captives?
(a) By screaming about a bear.
(b) By screaming about a snake.
(c) By waving at imaginary foes.
(d) By tossing pebbles into the woods.

4. What does Willy do when she wakes the next morning?
(a) Gets on her horse to go get her father's body.
(b) Calls out for her mother.
(c) Cries and goes back to sleep.
(d) Feeds the chickens and makes her mother breakfast.

5. What is in Baker's Cove?
(a) Some of the neighbors.
(b) A small group of American soldiers.
(c) Jordan's boat.
(d) Willy's aunt and uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jordan warns the Americans about _____________.

2. Where does Willy decide she should go?

3. What does Willy do?

4. What message do the British send to the fort?

5. What does Willy encounter as she is sailing toward New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. What noise do Willy and Lucy hear, and what is the cause of the noise?

2. How does Granny Hyde offer to help Willy?

3. What is a daily chore Willy must perform, and why does her mother tell her to skip it that day?

4. Where is Fort Griswold, and what is significant about the Fort?

5. Why does Willy end up staying in the fort during the fighting, and what does she do?

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

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

8. What does Willy say about black men in the British army, and how do the two soldiers respond?

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

10. What angers Willy the following day?

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